The Most Famous People in Israel
Top 100 of 311 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →
First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.
The Most Famous People in Israel is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ![]() Benjamin Netanyahu | 60.8 | iFANN → |
| 2 | ![]() Eyal Golan | 44.0 | iFANN → |
| 3 | ![]() David Ben-Gurion | 39.6 | iFANN → |
| 4 | Yitzhak Rabin | 38.6 | iFANN → |
| 5 | Noa Kirel | 38.4 | iFANN → |
| 6 | Naftali Bennett | 35.2 | iFANN → |
| 7 | Sarit Hadad | 33.3 | iFANN → |
| 8 | Yair Lapid | 33.1 | iFANN → |
| 9 | Menachem Begin | 32.4 | iFANN → |
| 10 | Itamar Ben-Gvir | 32.0 | iFANN → |
| 11 | Shlomo Artzi | 30.7 | iFANN → |
| 12 | Eden Ben Zaken | 30.0 | iFANN → |
| 13 | Gal Gadot | 29.3 | iFANN → |
| 14 | Golda Meir | 29.0 | iFANN → |
| 15 | Idan Raichel | 28.7 | iFANN → |
| 16 | Ariel Sharon | 27.7 | iFANN → |
| 17 | Benny Gantz | 27.4 | iFANN → |
| 18 | Lionel Messi | 27.2 | iFANN → |
| 19 | Donald Trump | 26.9 | iFANN → |
| 20 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 26.7 | iFANN → |
| 21 | Shimon Peres | 26.4 | iFANN → |
| 22 | Bar Refaeli | 25.8 | iFANN → |
| 23 | Arik Einstein | 25.6 | iFANN → |
| 24 | Ehud Barak | 25.3 | iFANN → |
| 25 | Yair Golan | 25.2 | iFANN → |
| 26 | Ovadia Yosef | 24.6 | iFANN → |
| 27 | Naomi Shemer | 24.1 | iFANN → |
| 28 | Aviv Geffen | 22.6 | iFANN → |
| 29 | Deni Avdija | 22.2 | iFANN → |
| 30 | Michael Jackson | 20.6 | iFANN → |
| 31 | Adolf Hitler | 20.1 | iFANN → |
| 32 | Ninet Tayeb | 19.8 | iFANN → |
| 33 | Ofra Haza | 19.7 | iFANN → |
| 34 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | 19.7 | iFANN → |
| 35 | Jesus Christ historical figure | 19.6 | iFANN → |
| 36 | Eran Zahavi | 19.5 | iFANN → |
| 37 | Yisrael Aharoni | 19.3 | iFANN → |
| 38 | Elon Musk | 19.1 | iFANN → |
| 39 | Lady Gaga | 18.7 | iFANN → |
| 40 | Amit Segal | 18.3 | iFANN → |
| 41 | Gilad Shalit | 18.2 | iFANN → |
| 42 | Eyal Berkovic | 18.1 | iFANN → |
| 43 | Shakira | 18.1 | iFANN → |
| 44 | Yoav Gallant | 17.8 | iFANN → |
| 45 | Baruch Goldstein | 17.6 | iFANN → |
| 46 | Taylor Swift | 17.1 | iFANN → |
| 47 | Justin Bieber | 16.5 | iFANN → |
| 48 | Ariana Grande | 16.5 | iFANN → |
| 49 | Leah Goldberg | 16.2 | iFANN → |
| 50 | Muhammad | 16.0 | iFANN → |
| 51 | Rihanna | 15.4 | iFANN → |
| 52 | Madonna | 15.1 | iFANN → |
| 53 | Beyoncé | 15.0 | iFANN → |
| 54 | Chava Alberstein | 14.9 | iFANN → |
| 55 | Barack Obama | 14.4 | iFANN → |
| 56 | Selena Gomez | 12.9 | iFANN → |
| 57 | Angelina Jolie | 12.9 | iFANN → |
| 58 | Ehud Banai | 12.8 | iFANN → |
| 59 | Eminem | 12.0 | iFANN → |
| 60 | Neymar | 12.0 | iFANN → |
| 61 | Eli Cohen | 11.4 | iFANN → |
| 62 | Kim Kardashian | 11.0 | iFANN → |
| 63 | Gadi Eisenkot | 10.8 | iFANN → |
| 64 | Jennifer Lopez | 9.7 | iFANN → |
| 65 | Mansour Abbas | 6.3 | iFANN → |
| 66 | Lior Raz | 6.5 | iFANN → |
| 67 | Meir Shalev | 6.2 | iFANN → |
| 68 | Ehud Olmert | 5.4 | iFANN → |
| 69 | Yardena Arazi | 5.2 | iFANN → |
| 70 | Manor Solomon | 5.1 | iFANN → |
| 71 | Natalie Portman | 5.0 | iFANN → |
| 72 | Pnina Rosenblum | 5.0 | iFANN → |
| 73 | Ada Yonath | 5.0 | iFANN → |
| 74 | Haim Revivo | 4.8 | iFANN → |
| 75 | Moran Atias | 4.8 | iFANN → |
| 76 | Yigal Amir | 4.7 | iFANN → |
| 77 | Agam Rudberg | 4.7 | iFANN → |
| 78 | Ayelet Shaked | 4.7 | iFANN → |
| 79 | Moshe Ya'alon | 4.6 | iFANN → |
| 80 | Moshe Dayan | 4.5 | iFANN → |
| 81 | Nathan Alterman | 4.4 | iFANN → |
| 82 | Tomer Capone | 4.4 | iFANN → |
| 83 | Meirav Cohen | 4.4 | iFANN → |
| 84 | Rafael Eitan | 4.2 | iFANN → |
| 85 | Israel Katz | 4.2 | iFANN → |
| 86 | Yossi Benayoun | 4.1 | iFANN → |
| 87 | Ilan Ramon | 3.9 | iFANN → |
| 88 | Yonit Levi | 3.9 | iFANN → |
| 89 | Eli Ohana | 3.8 | iFANN → |
| 90 | Gila Almagor | 3.7 | iFANN → |
| 91 | Oscar Gloukh | 3.7 | iFANN → |
| 92 | Dana International | 3.6 | iFANN → |
| 93 | Yeshayahu Leibowitz | 3.6 | iFANN → |
| 94 | Rami Kleinstein | 3.5 | iFANN → |
| 95 | Aki Avni | 3.4 | iFANN → |
| 96 | Linoy Ashram | 3.4 | iFANN → |
| 97 | Orna Banai | 3.3 | iFANN → |
| 98 | Noa Tishby | 3.2 | iFANN → |
| 99 | Amos Oz | 3.2 | iFANN → |
| 100 | David Grossman | 3.2 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks the most famous people connected to Israel as of September 2026, by overall fame rather than one month's attention: the top 100 of 311 names the rankings measured for Israel, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 75 of the 100 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Benjamin Netanyahu is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind Benjamin Netanyahu come Eyal Golan and David Ben-Gurion. Evidence coverage for this list is high, so its order can be quoted with confidence.
What famous means here
Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.
The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.
How the list was ranked
The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.
About Israel
Israel is one of the countries and regions the journal ranks every month. Country lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared with its neighbours and against the world.
Powered by iFANN
iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.
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"Benjamin Netanyahu, No. 1 on The Most Famous People in Israel", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org


