This is a list of notable Israeli Arab citizens.
Academia
Journalism
Culture
- Hiam Abbass, actress and film director
- Talleen Abu Hanna, Miss Trans Israel
- Mira Awad, singer-songwriter, represented Israel at Eurovision Song Contest
- Lucy Ayoub, television presenter (mother was born Jewish, converted to Christianity)
- Mohammad Bakri, actor and film director
- Nas Daily, vlogger
- Salim Daw, actor
- Elham Dwairy Tabry, author
- Angelina Fares, beauty pageant contestant; finalist in Miss Israel 2007.
- Emile Habibi, writer of literature
- Rashid Hussein, poet, orator, journalist and Arabic-Hebrew translator
- Norman Issa, actor
- Hanna Jubran, sculptor
- Nasrin Kadri, singer (converted to Judaism as an adult)
- Ahmad Kanaan, painter and sculptor
- Sayed Kashua, author and journalist
- Clara Khoury, actress
- Reda Mansour, poet, historian, and Israeli Ambassador to Ecuador, Brazil, and Panama
- Salman Masalha, poet, writer, essayist and translator
- Salman Natour, writer, journalist, and playwright
- Samih al-Qasim, poet
- Rana Raslan, Miss Israel 1999
- Samira Saraya, actor, filmmaker, and rapper
- Anton Shammas, poet and translator
- Fatma Shanan, painter
Elected office
- Mansour Abbas, Knesset member for United Arab List party
- Hamad Abu Rabia, Knesset member for United Arab List
- Waleed Alhwashla, Knesset member for United Arab List
- Sarhan Bader, political activist
- Zouheir Bahloul, Knesset member for Zionist Union
- Mohammad Barakeh, Knesset member for Hadash party
- Azmi Bishara, Knesset member for Balad party
- Amal Nasser el-Din, Knesset member for Likud; awarded the Israel Prize, the Prime Minister's Prize for the Commemoration of Fallen Soldiers, and the Yakir Haifa Award
- Masud Ghnaim, Knesset member for United Arab List
- Mazen Ghnaim, Knesset member for United Arab List
- Yasir Hujeirat, Knesset member for United Arab List
- Hussniya Jabara, female Knesset member for Meretz party
- Ayoob Kara, Knesset member for Likud, Israeli Minister of Communications, Israeli Deputy Minister for Development of the Negev and Galilee
- Raleb Majadele, Knesset member for the Israeli Labor Party, Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space
- Issam Makhoul, Knesset member for Hadash
- Nawaf Massalha, Knesset member for Labor Party, Israeli Deputy Minister of Health
- Mohammed Miari, Knesset member for Progressive List for Peace party
- Gadeer Mreeh, female Knesset member for Blue and White party
- Fateen Mulla, Knesset member for Likud; Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
- Muhammad Al-Nabari, Mayor of Hura
- Ayman Odeh, Knesset member for Hadash
- Raed Salah, Mayor of Umm al-Falm
- Ibrahim Sarsur, Knesset member for United Arab List
- Hana Sweid, Knesset member for Hadash
- Wasil Taha, Knesset member for Balad
- Salah Tarif, Knesset member for Labor Party, Israeli Minister without Portfolio
- Ahmad Tibi, Knesset member for Ta'al party
- Rifaat Turk, Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv
- Majalli Wahabi, Knesset member for Likud, Kadima, and Hatnuah; briefly assumed the position of President of Israel due to President Moshe Katzav's leave of absence and Acting President Dalia Itzik's trip abroad in February 2007.
- Jamal Zahalka, Knesset member for Balad
- Tawfiq Ziad, Knesset member for Hadash and Mayor of Nazareth
Law
- Salim Joubran, Israeli Supreme Court justice from 2004 to 2017
- Khaled Kabub, Israeli Supreme Court justice from 2022 to present
- George Karra, Israeli Supreme Court justice from 2017 to 2022, presiding judge finding Israeli President Moshe Katsav guilty of rape
- Elias Khoury, lawyer
- Abdel Rahman Zuabi, former Israeli Supreme Court justice, became first Arab-Israeli Supreme Court Justice in 1999
Military
- Ghassan Alian, IDF Major General, first non-Jewish commander of the Golani Brigade.
- , senior office in the Arabic division of the IDF spokesperson
- Imad Fares, IDF brigadier general, commander of the Givati Brigade
- , a Lieutenant colonel who died in the line of duty in 2018 in an operation in Khan Yunis
- Yusef Mishleb, IDF general, commander of the Etzion Regional Brigade, commander of the Edom Division, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, and commander of the Home Front Command
- Amos Yarkoni (Abd el-Majid Hidr), IDF lieutenant colonel
- Salman Zarka, IDF colonel, physician, Director of Ziv Medical Center in Safed, senior lecturer at the Haifa University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Public service
- Naim Araidi, academic, writer, and Israeli Ambassador to Norway
- Ishmael Khaldi, Israeli deputy consul in San Francisco
- Reda Mansour, poet, historian, and diplomat, Israeli Ambassador to Ecuador, Brazil, and Panama
- Ali Yahya, former Israeli ambassador to Finland
Sports
See also
References