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The Most Famous

LINGUISTS from Israel

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This page contains a list of the greatest Israeli Linguists. The pantheon dataset contains 161 Linguists, 3 of which were born in Israel. This makes Israel the birth place of the 19th most number of Linguists behind Japan and Estonia.

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Linguists of all time. This list of famous Israeli Linguists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Ghil'ad Zuckermann (1971 - )

With an HPI of 54.07, Ghil'ad Zuckermann is the most famous Israeli Linguist.  His biography has been translated into 89 different languages on wikipedia.

Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Hebrew: גלעד צוקרמן, pronounced [ɡiˈlad ˈt͜sukeʁman]; (1971-06-01)1 June 1971) is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity.

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2. Nurit Peled-Elhanan (1949 - )

With an HPI of 46.82, Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the 2nd most famous Israeli Linguist.  Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages.

Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Hebrew: נורית פלד-אלחנן; born 17 May 1949) is an Israeli philologist, professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, translator, and activist. She is a 2001 co-laureate of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded by the European Parliament. She is known for her research on the portrayal of Palestinians in Israeli textbooks, which she has criticized as being anti-Palestinian. Elhanan supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

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3. Gideon Toury (1942 - 2016)

With an HPI of 46.27, Gideon Toury is the 3rd most famous Israeli Linguist.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Gideon Toury (Hebrew: גדעון טורי) (6 June 1942 – 4 October 2016) was an Israeli translation scholar and professor of Poetics, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Tel Aviv University, where he held the M. Bernstein Chair of Translation Theory. Gideon Toury was a pioneer of Descriptive Translation Studies.

Pantheon has 3 people classified as linguists born between 1942 and 1971. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living linguists include Ghil'ad Zuckermann and Nurit Peled-Elhanan. The most famous deceased linguists include Gideon Toury.

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