Dutch people in Israel

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Dutch people in Israel
*Nederlanders in Israël*
Languages
Dutch
Religion
Mostly Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Judaism^{[citation needed]}

Dutch people in Israel (Dutch: Nederlanders in Israël) include Israeli citizens or residents who were born in the Netherlands or are of Dutch descent.

List of Dutch Israelis

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Arts

Helen Berman - painter (Dutch-born)
Hannah Yakin - painter (Dutch-born)

Business

Dov Frohman - director-general of Intel Israel, inventor of the EPROM (Dutch-born)

Civil service

Ya'akov Arnon - director-general of the Israeli ministry of Finance (Dutch-born)

Music

Keren Ann - recording artist, singer-songwriter and producer
Carmit Bachar - singer (American-born, of mixed Dutch-Israeli descent, with some Indonesian, Jewish, and Chinese roots)
Bart Berman - pianist and composer (Dutch-born)
Lenny Kuhr - singer-songwriter (Dutch-born)

Politics

Ophir Pines-Paz - Knesset member and former cabinet minister (was a citizen of the Netherlands; Dutch-born father)

Science

Martin van Creveld - military historian
Chaim Elata - professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Chairman of the Israel Public Utility Authority for Electricity
Manfred Gerstenfeld - political scientist

Sports

Daniël de Ridder - soccer player
Levie Van Ouwerkerk - soccer player

Theatre

Nissan Nativ - Israeli actor and theater educator (fled Germany to Amsterdam, then made aliyah)

References

v t e Dutch diaspora
Africa	Afrikaners Boers Cape Dutch Basters Coloureds Griqua
Asia	Indonesia Indo Totok Sri Lanka Burghers
Middle East	Israel
Europe	Finland Poland Olenders Vilamovians Vistula delta Mennonites United Kingdom
North America	Canada Mexico United States
Oceania	Australia New Zealand
South America	Argentina Brazil Chile Suriname
See also: Flemish people and Frisians

v t e Demographics of Israel
Israelis by religion	Judaism Rabbinic Conservative Reform Karaite Haymanot Islam Ahmadiyya Christianity Catholic Maronites Eastern Orthodox Oriental Orthodox Protestant Druzism¹ Samaritanism Hinduism Buddhism
Jews	Ashkenazim Romanian Russian Mizrahim Bukharan Iraqi Iranian Kurdish Moroccan Mountain Jews Yemenite Sephardim Bulgarian Moroccan Turkish Karaites Crimean Karaites Romaniotes Italkim Gruzinim Indian Cochin Bene Israel Bnei Menashe Bene Ephraim Ethiopian Beta Israel Falash Mura Krymchaks Australian B'nai Moshe Uruguayan Argentine Venezuelan Pakistani Russian
Arabs	Arab Muslims Madani and Fellahin Bedouin Galilee Negev Arab Christians Druze¹ Palestinians Afro-Palestinians Egyptians Lebanese
Other Semitic	Ahmadiyya Arameans² Assyrians Lebanese Maronites Samaritans
Other non-Semitic groups	Africans African Americans Black Hebrew Israelites Argentines [es] Armenians Bosniaks Chileans [es] Chinese Circassians Doms Dutch Filipinos Greeks Indians (Hindus) Kurds Mexicans [es] Russians Subbotniks Sudanese Turks Vietnamese
¹ Druze have a status aparte from Muslim Arabs in Israel, since 1957. ² Arameans have a status aparte from Christian Arabs in Israel, since 2014.