* Neal Israel: director of Surf Ninjas and nationally ranked falconer

* Leon Feingold, currently a pitcher in the Israel Baseball League, former minor league pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, and internationally ranked ( top ranking # 12 ) in the IFOCE ( International Federation of Competitive Eating )

The Center for World University Rankings ranked Tel Aviv University 56th in the world and fourth in Israel in its 2012 CWUR World University Rankings.

In 2011 QS World University Rankings ranked Tel Aviv University 173rd in the world, making it the second-highest ranked university in Israel.

In 2012, the Center for World University Rankings ranked Technion 51st in the world and third in Israel in its CWUR World University Rankings.

For national rankings in 2011, Technion was ranked the # 2 of universities in Israel by ARWU.

Israel has won over 100 gold medals in the Paralympic Games, and is ranked about 15th in the All-time Paralympic Games medal table.

In 2012, the Center for World University Rankings ranked the Hebrew University 22nd in the world and second in Israel in its CWUR World University Rankings, while another survey ranked it as the 9th best university to work in, and the 2nd best outside of the United States.

In a 2009 report by the CleanTech Group, Israel ranked among the top 10 clean tech countries in the world, behind Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

In 2009 Israel was ranked 2nd among 20 top countries in space sciences by Thomson Reuters agency.

In 2010, the Bank of Israel was ranked first among central banks for its efficient functioning, according to IMD's World Competitiveness Yearbook.

The Israel Museum is the largest cultural institution in the State of Israel and is ranked among the world ’ s leading art and archaeology museums.

In 2003, the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture's committee for evaluating the quality of exhibitions and collections, ranked the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art second only to the Israel Museum in order of merit.

In the group stages she played singles, defeating opponents from Portugal, the Netherlands and Israel in the group stages. The team qualified for a play-off against Austria in which Baltacha defeated Tamira Paszek 6 – 1, 6 – 4 despite Paszel being ranked 9 places higher than Baltacha at the time.

Further levels of editing have also been proposed, including: a late 8th century edition pointing to Hezekiah of Judah as the model for kingship ; an earlier 8th century version with a similar message but identifying Jehu of Israel as the ideal king ; and an even earlier version promoting the House of David as the key to national well-being.

While traditionally accepted as the genuine words of Moses delivered on the eve of the occupation of Canaan, a broad consensus of modern scholars now see its origins in traditions from Israel ( the northern kingdom ) brought south to the Kingdom of Judah in the wake of the Assyrian destruction of Samaria ( 8th century BCE ) and then adapted to a program of nationalist reform in the time of King Josiah ( late 7th century ), with the final form of the modern book emerging in the milieu of the return from the Babylonian exile during the late 6th century.

The Iron Age Kingdom of Israel ( Samaria ) | kingdom of Israel ( blue ) and kingdom of Judah ( tan ), with their neighbours ( 8th century BCE )

Hosea (;, Greek = Ōsēé ) was the son of Beeri, a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BC and author of the book of prophecies bearing his name.

The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian ruler Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE with many people from the capital Samaria being taken captive to Media and the Khabur River valley.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

By the late 8th century BC the territory of Israel was the most densely settled in the entire Levant, with a population of about 350, 000.

This text contains a number of laws, dated to the 8th century BC kingdom of Judah, a time when a minority Yahwist faction was actively attacking mainstream polytheism, succeeding in establishing official monolatry of the God of Israel under Josiah by the late 7th century BC.

* The late 8th century BC siege system surrounding the site of Lachish ( Tell el-Duweir ) in Israel, built by Sennacherib of Assyria in 701 BC, is not only evident in the archaeological remains, but is described in Assyrian and biblical sources and in the reliefs of Sennacherib's palace in Nineveh.

When the reformer King Hezekiah came to the throne of Judah in the late 8th century BCE, " He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, smashed the idols, and broke into pieces the copper snake that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

The prophets Amos and Hosea write of events during the 8th century kingdom of Israel ; the prophet Jeremiah writes of events preceding and following the fall of Judah ; Ezekiel writes of events during and preceding the exile in Babylon ; and other prophets similarly touch on various periods, usually those in which they write.

However, since the discovery of an inscription dating to the 9th or 8th century BCE on the Tel Dan Stele unearthed in the north of Israel, which may refer to the " house of David " as a monarchic dynast, the debate has continued.

It appears that the Hivite cultural distinctiveness ceased before the Assyrian conquest of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the 8th century BCE, and the Babylonian conquest of the southern Kingdom of Judah in the 6th century BCE, each with consequential population deportations.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914, a tradition dating back to the 8th century identifies Cana with the modern Arab town of Kafr Kanna, about 7 km northeast of Nazareth, Israel.

It is believed that they had arrived in Persia from Ancient Israel as early as the 8th century BCE.

It is believed that they had arrived in Persia, from Ancient Israel, as early as the 8th century BCE.

In 1980, the Haym Solomon Lodge # 663 of the fraternal organization B ' rith Sholom sponsored a memorial in the Mikveh Israel Cemetery on the north side of Spruce Street between 8th and 9th Streets in Philadelphia.

* The Prophets of Israel and their place in history, to the close of the 8th century B. C.

Israel Finkelstein suggests that the empire of David and Solomon ( United Monarchy ) never existed and Judah was not in a position to support an extended state until the start of the 8th century.

This text contains a number of laws, dated to the 8th century BC kingdom of Judah, a time when a minority Yahwist faction was actively attacking mainstream polytheism, succeeding in establishing official monolatry of the God of Israel under Josiah by the late 7th century BC.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914, a tradition dating back to the 8th century identifies Cana with the modern Arab town of Kafr Kanna, about 7 km northeast of Nazareth, Israel.

According to Jacqueline Pirenne, numerous Sabaeans left north Arabia and crossed over the Red Sea to Ethiopia to escape from the Assyrians, who had devastated the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the 8th and 7th centuries BC.

In Israel, the tenth grade is the first year of the high school, which lasts three years ( high school is called Tichon ), except in some cities ( such as Ramat Gan and Giv ' atayim ), where elementary school ends at 8th Grade and High School starts at 9th Grade.

Orchestral conductors such as Gillian B. Anderson, Carl Davis, Carl Daehler, and Robert Israel have written and compiled scores for numerous silent films.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

Heavily favored Russia was hosted by Israel in a Davis Cup quarterfinal tie in July 2009, on indoor hard courts at the Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv.

From around 1957 until quite recently, Samuel Armistead ( UC Davis ) with colleagues Joseph Silverman and Israel Katz collected the Judeo-Spanish song tradition from informants in North America, Turkey, the Balkans, Greece, North Africa, and Israel.

In early March, alongside his teammates, he defeated Israel in the Davis Cup to send Chile to the quarterfinals.

Other films Mitch Davis has written and directed include Windrunner, as well as the romance A House Divided, a modern day tale of Jewish man's undying love for a Palestinian woman in Israel.

After her divorce from Bill Jackson, she remarried to another New York lawyer, Wendell Davis, who died in 1972 ; she subsequently remarried a third time to U. S. Senator and former Ambassador to Israel, Kenneth Keating ; thus, becoming Mary ( Pitcairn ) Jackson Davis Keating.

Monnett Bain Davis, United States Ambassador to Israel with Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel.

Recognized for his negotiating skills, Davis was then assigned to the post of U. S. Ambassador to Israel in 1951.

Elmasry has referred to Israel as " Apartheid Israel " and has praised Israeli activist Uri Davis because he has " worked to expose the real truth behind Israel's so-called " democracy.

" Elmasry has also stated Uri Davis work makes it clear " to any thinking person that Apartheid Israel and Apartheid South Africa are remarkably similar.

Davis also ran U. S. Army aviation operations for peace enforcement between Israel and Egypt.

Saadia Marciano, one of the movement's founders, chose the name " Black Panthers " in 1971 when Angela Davis, one of the African American Black Panthers, came to visit Israel where she met with Marciano, who then adopted the name.

Heavily favored Russia was hosted by Israel in a Davis Cup quarter-final tie in July 2009, on indoor hard courts at the Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv.

Heavily favored Russia was hosted by Israel in a Davis Cup quarterfinal tie in July 2009, on indoor hard courts at the Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv.

Past and current members of note include Al Poulin, Jr. ( 1938 – 1996 ), Patricia Janus ( 1932 – 2006 ), Dale Davis, Leah Zazulyer, Cornelius Eady, Dane Gordon, Jordan Smith, James Lavilla-Havelin, Etta Ruth Weigl, Israel Emiot ( 1909 – 1978 ), Gary Lehmann, John Roche, Vincent Golphin, Anne Coon, Carol Oliver, Gerald Clarke, Robert Koch, Wynne McClure, Ruth Kennedy, Francesca Gulì ( ca 1921-2009 ), Paul Humphrey ( 1915 – 2001 ), Eleanor McQuilken ( 1908 – 2004 ), George Monagan ( 1925 – 2005 ), David Michael Nixon, W. E. Butts, Linda Allardt, Patricia Roth Schwartz, John Cieslinski, Beatrice O ' Brien, Judith Kitchen, Stanley Rubin, and Frank Judge, the current president.

In September 2008 against the Peru Davis Cup team, after losing one match in singles to Luis Horna 7 – 5, 5 – 7, 7 – 6 ( 3 ), 6 – 3, Levy paired with Andy Ram to win the doubles tie 6 – 1, 6 – 1, 6 – 2, as Israel won 4 – 1.

2002 Australian Open champion Thomas Johansson defeated Levy in the opening match, 6 – 7 ( 3 ), 6 – 4, 7 – 5, 4 – 6, 8 – 6, in just under 4 hours, but Levy won the decisive final match against Andreas Vinciguerra in Vinciguerra's hometown of Malmö, Sweden, 6 – 4, 4 – 6, 6 – 4, 3 – 6, 8 – 6 in a marathon 3 hour, 44 minutes to lead the Israeli team to a come-from-behind 3 – 2 victory over the 7-time Davis Cup champion Swedes at Baltic Hall, allowing Israel to advance in the 2009 Davis Cup.