Famous People with Name Israel

Israel Bascón Giga            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Israel Bascón Giga: a Spanish footballer who currently plays for Real Betis of the Spanish La Liga. Israel is a right-sided midfielder.Israel made his debut for the first team of Real Betis against Real Sociedad on 16 March 2005. During the 2004/2005 season he made 8 La Liga appearances. He also made 3 Copa del Rey appearances, even scoring his first Betis goal against CD Mirandés. During the 2005/2006 season he made another 8 La Liga appearances, of which 7 were as a substitute. He appeared in one UEFA Cup match and in two UEFA Champions League matches. He appeared as a substitute against Liverpool at Anfield and started against Anderlecht. He has a contract with Betis until 2011.

Israel Castro            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Israel Castro: a Mexican football player.He currently plays as a defender for Club Universidad Nacional, a Mexico City team commonly known as the Pumas. He joined the Pumas youth system and worked his way through the ranks to debut in 2002; he's a regular starter and played a very important role on the 2004 campaign of the team, when Pumas won consecutive league championships. Fans also call him the "Asesino de galácticos" or "Assassin of Galactics", since he was the lone scorer in the game when Pumas defeated Real Madrid (nicknamed "los galácticos") for the Santiago Bernabeú trophy in 2004.

Israel López            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Israel López: a Mexican football player who, as of 2004 was playing for Club Toluca.His former clubs include UNAM Pumas, Chivas de Guadalajara, and Cruz Azul, he has also played at international levelfor Mexico.He was part of the Mexican 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the first round, having finished third in group A, below group winners Mali and South Korea.

Israel Albert Horowitz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Israel Albert Horowitz: was a Jewish-American International Master of chess. He was clearly a grandmaster-strength player by present day standards, but he never got the title. He is most remembered today for the books he wrote about chess, many of which are still highly recommended for students of the game.

Israel Shahak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Israel Shahak: was a Polish-born Israeli Professor of Chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the former president of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, and an outspoken critic of the Israeli government. Shahak's writings on Judaism have been the source of considerable controversy.After graduating from high school, Shahak served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in an elite regiment.[4] After completing service with the IDF, he attended Hebrew University where he received his doctorate in chemistry. He became an assistant to the head of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission[5]. In 1961, he left Israel for the United States to study as a postdoctoral student at Stanford University. He returned two years later to become a teacher and researcher in chemistry at Hebrew University, where he remained until his retirement in 1990.

Edward Israel            Origin/Culture/Country:

Edward Israel: was an astronomer and Polar explorer.Israel left for Washington, D.C. on April 28, 1881 to join the Lady Franklin Bay polar expedition with 23 other men under the leadership of Adolphus Greely. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition was commissioned by the US government to collect scientific information about the polar regions. Israel received the assignment of collecting astronomical, magnetic and meteorological data.The ill-fated expedition left Washington on June 9, 1881, reaching Newfoundland later in the month. From there, the crew boarded a special polar-equipped ship and went to Lady Franklin Bay, to a site far above the Arctic Circle. Israel and the rest of the crew spent two years at a camp they called Fort Conger.

Märt Israel            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Märt Israel: is an Estonian discus thrower.His personal best is 66.56 metres, achieved in September 2007 in Helsingborg.

Mione Elizabeth George Israel            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Mione Elizabeth George Israel: was the focus of one of the most widely publicized longevity claims of recent years. Israel was born in Dominica. Her birthdate of January 27, 1875, was attested by an entry in a baptismal register as reproduced after a 1979 hurricane, and by a birth certificate procured for her in 2000 based on the baptismal register. She was known by the name Mione "Minette" George for much of her life; Israel was her married name. She worked as a crew chief on a plantation into the late 1970s. In her old age, she became the focus of one of the most widely publicized longevity claims of recent years. In December 1999, she was publicly stated to be 124 years old and the world's oldest person. Disk jockey Alex Bruno was the initial advocate of this claim; Bruno established a foundation and promoted a play about her life, and sought to promote tourism to Dominica based on its being a haven for longevity. Attempted validation of her claim was called both "frenetic" and "barely attempted". Israel was disabled when she was first promoted as the world's oldest person, and did not promote herself. Her attested birthdate would have made her 128 years old at death. The Guinness Book of World Records rejected her longevity claim based on lack of evidence, while promoters made strongly worded demands that the claim be accepted on its evidence. The longevity claim was supported by the highest ranks of the government of her native Dominica. The observed life expectancy on Dominica, and the extremely high death rates among supercentenarians, were cited as requiring greater evidence than her promoters provided. The baptismal register was a third-generation copy; the entry cited was for "Elizabeth Israel", her married name; and no documents attesting to the birthdate and dating to the first century of her stated lifespan were ever produced.