Top Institutions and Economists in Israel, as of April 2026

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There are 9298 institutions with 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For a listing of all economics institutions in Israel, see EDIRC
For Israel, these are 33 institutions with 263 members with a total share of 246.46.

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel	1.11	27	21.05
2	[2]	Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel	1.78	38	33.01
3	[3]	Bar Ilan University → Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan, Israel	3.17	21	19.21
4	[4]	Ben Gurion University of the Negev → Economics Department, Beer-Sheva, Israel	4.66	22	20.84
5	[5]	Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Center for the Study of Rationality, Jerusalem, Israel	4.97	8	7
6	[6]	Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) → School of Economics, Herzliya, Israel	5.61	11	8.62
7	[7]	University of Haifa → Department of Economics, Haifa, Israel	7.09	19	18
-	[-]	Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics → Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Tel Aviv, Israel	7.11	2	1.41
8	[8]	Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Environmental Economics and Management, Rehovot, Israel	7.51	13	12.50

Top institutions, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel	1.46	27	10
2	[2]	Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel	1.63	38	10
3	[3]	Bank of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel	3.37	37	10
4	[4]	Ben Gurion University of the Negev → Economics Department, Beer-Sheva, Israel	3.70	22	10
5	[5]	Bar Ilan University → Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan, Israel	5.27	21	10
6	[6]	Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) → School of Economics, Herzliya, Israel	5.77	11	8.62
7	[7]	University of Haifa → Department of Economics, Haifa, Israel	6.09	19	10
8	[8]	Bar Ilan University → Graduate School of Business Administration, Ramat-Gan, Israel	7.92	9	9

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Ariel Rubinstein	2.49
2	[3]	Manuel Trajtenberg	2.49
3	[7]	Yoram Weiss	4.24
4	[8]	Robert J. Aumann	5.05
5	[9]	Zvi Eckstein	8.37
6	[10]	Eytan Sheshinski	8.54
7	[14]	Zvi Hercowitz	8.56
8	[1]	Assaf Razin	8.57
9	[11]	Sergiu Hart	8.70
10	[4]	Victor Chaim Lavy	9.08
11	[16]	Joseph Zeira	10.06
12	[18]	Saul Lach	12.64
13	[19]	Arye L. Hillman	12.85
14	[5]	Itzhak Gilboa	13.71
15	[20]	Shmuel Nitzan	14.54
16	[21]	Eugene Kandel	15.35
17	[6]	Eddie Dekel	15.49
18	[22]	Efraim Sadka	18.29
19	[25]	Itzhak Zilcha	19.01
20	[24]	Eric D. Gould	19.40
21	[28]	Neil Gandal	20.34
22	[29]	Aner Sela	20.49
23	[27]	David Genesove	20.55
24	[38]	Jacques Silber	21.19
25	[32]	Reuben Gronau	25.14
26	[30]	Daniel Tsiddon	26.07
27	[26]	Daniel Levy	26.94
28	[36]	Moses Shayo	27.83
29	[31]	Dov Samet	28.36
30	[35]	Itay Saporta Eksten	28.75
31	[12]	Chaim Fershtman	30.05
32	[13]	Joel Mokyr	30.92
33	[42]	Raphael Franck	33.78
34	[17]	Ran Spiegler	33.85
35	[37]	Shmuel Zamir	33.97
36	[39]	Oscar Volij	34.83
37	[40]	Analia Schlosser	35.86
38	[15]	Omer Moav	36.05
39	[55]	Ofer H. Azar	36.39
40	[44]	Ady Pauzner	36.97
41	[41]	Dan Ben-David	37.94
42	[45]	Ori Heffetz	38.07
43	[47]	Avraham Yehuda Ebenstein	39.06
44	[50]	Zvika Neeman	43.97
45	[51]	Moshe Justman	45.07
46	[48]	Eran Yashiv	45.10
47	[56]	Joram Mayshar	45.87
48	[58]	Moshe Shiki Levy	47.26
49	[57]	Anat Bracha	47.35
50	[53]	Giora Hanoch	47.43
51	[54]	Michael Beenstock	47.89
52	[60]	Esteban F. Klor (Esteban Klor)	48.54
53	[63]	Asaf Zussman	49.44
54	[59]	Yacov Tsur	49.96
55	[61]	Adi Brender	51.27
56	[62]	Moshe Kim	53.04
57	[65]	Abraham Neyman	54.00
58	[66]	Robert M. Sauer	55.47
59	[52]	Yaniv Grinstein	55.90
60	[72]	Ayal Kimhi	59.45
61	[67]	Ilan Cooper	59.82
62	[70]	Eilon Solan	61.10
63	[69]	Naomi E. Feldman	62.60
64	[68]	Dan Peled	62.65
65	[76]	David Wettstein	63.83
66	[78]	Elise S. Brezis	64.05

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Ro'ee Levy	2.59
2	[4]	Moses Shayo	3.15
3	[6]	Itay Saporta Eksten	5.49
4	[1]	Victor Chaim Lavy	5.55
5	[8]	Raphael Franck	6.13
6	[11]	Neil Gandal	6.72
7	[10]	Aner Sela	6.75
8	[14]	Jonathan Benchimol	10.13
9	[13]	Dan Zeltzer	12.72
10	[18]	Jacques Silber	12.90
11	[16]	Nadav Ben Zeev	13.30
12	[15]	Yaniv Yedid-Levi	13.39
13	[12]	Michael Amior	13.42
14	[3]	Ran Spiegler	14.43
15	[17]	Ori Heffetz	14.48
16	[21]	Edith Sand	17.39
17	[25]	Oren Levintal	20.14
18	[24]	Yevgeny Mugerman	20.22
19	[20]	Asaf Zussman	20.76
20	[5]	Joel Mokyr	21.14
21	[32]	Manuel Trajtenberg	22.31
22	[26]	Ofer Setty	24.65
23	[35]	Itamar Caspi	25.35
24	[22]	Eric D. Gould	25.81
25	[23]	Sergiu Hart	26.20
26	[29]	Menachem Meni Abudy	26.73
27	[38]	Yannay Spitzer	27.24
28	[33]	Ofer H. Azar	28.90
29	[28]	Zvi Eckstein	29.44
30	[37]	Ilan Cooper	30.36
31	[31]	Naomi E. Feldman	30.38
32	[27]	Daniel Levy	31.44
33	[39]	Assaf Sarid	33.23
34	[34]	Yuval Heller	34.05
35	[40]	Ohad Raveh	35.47
36	[44]	Osnat Lifshitz	35.48
37	[48]	Zeev Shtudiner	35.48
38	[9]	Assaf Razin	36.14
39	[42]	רועי זולטן (Ro'i Zultan)	36.27
40	[45]	Assaf Romm	39.65
41	[46]	Moshe Justman	39.87
42	[53]	Artyom Jelnov	41.12
43	[50]	David Lagziel	41.46
44	[56]	Arye L. Hillman	41.70
45	[49]	Moti Michaeli	42.16
46	[52]	Sigal Ribon	44.01
47	[55]	Joram Mayshar	44.36
48	[68]	David Weiss	45.37
49	[51]	Naomi Gershoni	46.83
50	[70]	Ori Shai	47.81
51	[61]	Anat Bracha	49.37
52	[43]	Ariel Rubinstein	50.46
53	[59]	Robert J. Aumann	50.56
54	[57]	Robert M. Sauer	51.34
55	[58]	Alon Raviv	51.75
56	[72]	Zvi Wiener	51.79
57	[78]	Andrey Kudryavtsev	51.81
58	[19]	Itzhak Gilboa	53.73
59	[60]	Analia Schlosser	54.03
60	[79]	Ofir David Rubin	54.30
61	[66]	Yacov Tsur	54.36
62	[65]	Ori Weisel	54.97
63	[62]	Yaniv Reingewertz	55.23
64	[67]	Elise S. Brezis	56.00
65	[71]	Ori Haimanko	57.88
66	[74]	Shmuel Nitzan	58.01

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Citations from CitEc project by José Manuel Barrueco Cruz, University of Valencia, Spain. Hardware provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE), Valencia, Spain.
Abstract views and downloads statistics from LogEc project by Sune Karlsson, Örebro University, Sweden.
Author registration, institution database, and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann.
RePEc has been initiated by Thomas Krichel.

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