53 Israeli non fiction writers

Yossi (Joseph) Alpher is an Israeli columnist and writer on Israel-related Middle East strategic issues. Alpher is best known as the author of the prize winning Periphery: Israel's Search for Middle East Allies, as well as coeditor of Bitterlemons in collaboration with Ghassan Khatib, a former vice president of Bir Zeit University. In recent years, Alpher has been extensively interviewed in documentaries about the Mossad.

Dana Amir is a full professor at Haifa University, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, poetess and literature researcher.

Moshe Amirav is an expert on the conflict in Jerusalem. He is a frequent lecturer at international conferences and forums on Jerusalem and has authored six books and many articles on this subject.

Adam Baruch was an Israeli journalist, newspaper editor, writer and art critic.

Amnon Barzel is an internationally known art curator and author.

Israel Beer was an Austrian-born Israeli citizen convicted of espionage. On March 31, 1961, Beer, a senior employee in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, was arrested under suspicion of espionage for the Soviet Union. A former lieutenant colonel in the IDF, Beer was a well-known military commentator and an acknowledged expert on military history, and he was employed in a civilian position within the Israeli Ministry of Defense to write a book on the history of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. His true identity, his personal history before emigrating to Palestine, and the circumstances of his recruitment to the KGB, have all remained unknown to this day.

Nitza Ben-Dov is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa.

Eran Ben-Shahar is an Israeli author, philosopher, journalist and inventor. Born in Haifa, Israel, after living and lecturing in the Galilee, Israel he now lives in New Zealand. Author of the bestseller Barely-Bear Makes Money and also of 42 – Personal Empowerment Pocket Guide and Ofer the Fawn – The Water Riddle. Creator of the "Social-Capitalistic" concept. Inventor of many open-source internet products and publishings. His books are published in Biblical Hebrew in the source, translated to English (2006) and Chinese (2007).

Ronen Bergman is an Israeli investigative journalist and author. He is a senior political and military analyst for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's largest-circulation daily.

Anat Berko is an Israeli criminologist and politician. An expert in the fields of counter-terrorism, she served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019.

Mordechai Bibi is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Ahdut HaAvoda and its successors between 1959 and 1974.

Azmi Bishara is an Arab public intellectual, political philosopher and author. He is presently the General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

Avraham "Avrum" Burg is an Israeli author, politician and businessman: he was a member of the Knesset, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Speaker of the Knesset, and Interim President of Israel. He was the first Speaker of the Knesset to have been born in Israeli territory after independence in 1948. A member of the Labor Party when he was a member of the Knesset, Burg announced in January 2015 that he had joined Hadash.

Sami Shalom Chetrit is a Moroccan-born Hebrew poet an inter-disciplinary scholar and teacher, and Israeli social and peace activist.

Ruth Dayan is the founder of the Maskit fashion house and is active in many social causes. She was the first wife of the late Israeli defense force General and politician Moshe Dayan.

Petr A. Druzhinin ; Russian-Israeli historian and author, an expert in rare books and manuscripts; PhD in history. Research fellow of the Tel Aviv University and Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Reuven Gal is an Israeli social and clinical psychologist, a social activist and entrepreneur, researcher, author and consultant in the field of behavioral, communal and social sciences.

Shimon Garidi was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1951 and 1955.

Mordechai Geldman is an Israeli poet, artist, and psychologist

Boris Gelfand is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989.

David Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Eitan Haber was an Israeli journalist and publicist, known for his writing on military and security issues, and for his longtime association with the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Shulamith Hareven was an Israeli author and essayist.

Aura Herzog is a social activist and the widow of Chaim Herzog, sixth president of the State of Israel. In 1968, she founded Council for a Beautiful Israel.

David Horovitz is a British-born British-Israeli journalist, author and speaker. He is the founding editor of The Times of Israel, a current affairs website based in Jerusalem that launched in February 2012. Previously, he had been the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Report.

Shlomo Kalo was a writer and microbiologist. He published approximately 80 fiction and nonfiction books in Hebrew, some of which are published in translation internationally.

Michael I. Karpin is an Israeli broadcast journalist and author, best known for his investigative documentaries and books, revealing two of Israel's most concealed affairs: The creation of the country's nuclear capability and the nationalistic-messianic incitement campaign that preceded the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On May 1986, Karpin broke the story of Israel's secret service (Shabak) fabrication of evidence in the course of Bus Line 300's investigation, one of the most controversial political affairs in the history of the country. In 1987, he exposed the Izat Nafsu Affair: a Moslem IDF officer and a Circassian, who was maliciously investigated by the secret service, convicted of spying and eventually exonerated by the Supreme Court. Karpin is married to Pnina, has 3 grownup children and lives in Tel Aviv.

Maayan Keret is an Israeli model, actress, entrepreneur, lecturer, and activist. She had founded the Your Runway organization, which leads workshops for girls about body image and self esteem. Keret said she was raped at the age of 12. Since then, she has been harassed or assaulted so many times she “stopped counting.”

Felicia Langer was a German-Israeli attorney and human rights activist known for her defence of Palestinian political prisoners in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She authored several books alleging human rights violations on the part of Israeli authorities. She lived in Germany from 1990 and acquired German citizenship in 2008. In July 2009, President of Germany Horst Köhler awarded her the Federal Cross of Merit, First class, which is the fifth highest of Germany's federal order of merit's eight ranks. The bestowal triggered a public controversy because of her attitude towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 1990, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "the exemplary courage of her advocacy for the basic rights of the Palestinian people."

Smadar Lavie is a Mizrahi U.S.-Israeli anthropologist, author, and activist. She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, emphasizing issues of race, gender and religion. Lavie is a Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Lavie received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (1989) and spent nine years as Assistant and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She authored The Poetics of Military Occupation, receiving the 1990 Honorable Mention of the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing, and Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture receiving the 2015 Honorable Mention of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award Competition. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel's first edition was also one of the four finalists in the 2015 Clifford Geertz Book Award Competition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. She also co-edited Creativity/Anthropology and Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity. Lavie won the American Studies Association's 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Prize for her article, “Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine-Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa,” published in Anthropology and Humanism (2011). In 2013, Smadar Lavie won the “Heart at East” Honor Plaque for lifetime service to Mizraḥi communities in Israel-Palestine.

Nava Macmel-Atir is an Israeli author, playwright and poet. She is best known for having written the books Adi's Jewel and Ot me-Avshalom, which became a bestseller and has earned Macmel-Atir numerous recognitions and awards.

Sagi Melamed is an Israeli fundraising consultant, a writer, an author, and a karate instructor. He serves as Vice President of External Relations and Development at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, and promotes interfaith and intercultural relations between Israel and the Diaspora, and between Jews and other cultures and religions.

Professor Ya'akov Meshorer was the Chief Curator for archaeology at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and a prominent Israeli numismatist.

David Nekrutman is an American-Israeli Orthodox Jewish theologian, writer, director, columnist, public speaker, and pro-Israel activist. He is a prominent figure and pioneer in the world of Jewish-Christian relations, and is the executive director of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC), co-founder of the Day to Praise global interfaith initiative, and founder of the Blessing Bethlehem aid organization. In addition, Nekrutman is a columnist who has written for The Jerusalem Post, Charisma Magazine, and The Times of Israel.

Keren Neubach is an Israeli journalist, television presenter for the Israeli (government) Channel 1, and radio presenter for Reshet Bet.

Erich Neumann, was a psychologist, philosopher, writer, and student of Carl Jung.

Guy Harley Oseary is an American talent manager, investor, writer and businessman. His clients include Madonna and U2.

Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Lev Borisovich Psakhis is a naturalised Israeli chess grandmaster, trainer and author. Born in Siberia, he is also a two-time former champion of the Soviet Union.

Nathan Rotenstreich was an Israeli professor of philosophy.

Ze'ev Schiff was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Haaretz.

Ze'ev Segal was an Israeli lawyer, a professor of law at Tel Aviv University and a legal analyst for the newspaper Haaretz.

Amnon Shamosh is an Israeli author and poet.

Ari Shavit is an Israeli reporter and writer. Shavit was a Senior Correspondent at the left-of-center Israeli newspaper Haaretz before he resigned when a pattern of sexual misconduct came to public attention.

Tsur Shezaf is an Israeli travel-book writer, journalist and novelist.

Nadav Shragai is an Israeli author and journalist.

Jonathan Spyer is a British-Israeli analyst, writer, and journalist of Middle Eastern affairs. He is a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and the Middle East Forum, a freelance security analyst and correspondent for Jane's Information Group, and a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz was an Israeli Chabad Chasidic rabbi, teacher, philosopher, social critic, author, translator and publisher.

Alon Tal is a leading Israeli environmental activist and academic; founder of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense, and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies; and a co-founder of Ecopeace: Friends of the Earth, Middle East; This is My Earth; the Israel Forum for Demography, Environment and Society; Aytzim: Ecological Judaism; and the Green Movement political party. Tal was appointed chair of the department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University in 2017.

Shmuel "Sam" Vaknin is an Israeli writer. He is the author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited (1999), was editor-in-chief of political news website Global Politician, and runs a private website about narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). He has also postulated a theory on chronons and time asymmetry.

Esther Vilenska was a Lithuanian Jewish Israeli communist politician, journalist and author who served as a member of the Knesset for Maki between 1951 and 1959 and then again from 1961 to 1965.

Michel Warschawski (Mikado) is an Israeli anti-Zionist activist. He led the Marxist Revolutionary Communist League until its demise in the 1990s, and founded the Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli non-governmental organization, in 1984.

Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A. B. Yehoshua. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner".