Issue No. 2 · September 2026
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    Issue No. 2 · September 2026

    ILThe Most Famous People from Israel

    Top 22 of 22 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →

    Everyone, living or dead, on one scale: 14 of the 22 listed are living.

    First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.

    The Most Famous People from Israel is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.

    RankNameScore
    1
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    ILpoliticianAlive
    24.5
    2
    Natalie Portman
    ILcelebrityAlive
    21.1
    3
    Gal Gadot
    ILcelebrityAlive
    15.9
    4
    Yuval Noah Harari
    ILcelebrityAlive
    13.2
    5
    Ariel Sharon
    ILpolitician
    12.1
    612.0
    7
    Golda Meir
    ILpolitician
    12.0
    8
    Yitzhak Rabin
    ILpolitician
    11.9
    9
    Naftali Bennett
    ILpoliticianAlive
    11.8
    10
    Shimon Peres
    ILpolitician
    11.3
    11
    Menachem Begin
    ILpolitician
    10.3
    12
    Denis Shapovalov
    ILcelebrityAlive
    8.7
    13
    Oded Fehr
    ILcelebrityAlive
    7.0
    147.0
    15
    Manor Solomon
    ILcelebrityAlive
    6.8
    16
    Lior Raz
    ILcelebrityAlive
    6.6
    17
    Avi Arad
    ILcelebrityAlive
    5.9
    18
    Ada Yonath
    ILcelebrityAlive
    5.7
    19
    Alona Tal
    ILcelebrityAlive
    5.6
    20
    Hillel Slovak
    ILcelebrity
    5.4
    21
    Yossi Ghinsberg
    ILcelebrityAlive
    4.7
    22
    Emanuel Sharp
    ILcelebrityAlive
    1.5

    About this list

    This list ranks people from Israel by their overall worldwide fame rather than local attention, as assessed for September 2026: the top 22 of 22 names, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 14 of the 22 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 Natalie Portman and Gal Gadot.

    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.

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    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 from Israel", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org

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