Top Institutions and Economists in Israel, as of May 2026

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There are 9321 institutions with 73501 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	1.15	27	21.05
2	[2]	Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel	1.75	38	33.01
3	[3]	Bar Ilan University → Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan, Israel	3.23	21	19.21
4	[4]	Ben Gurion University of the Negev → Economics Department, Beer-Sheva, Israel	4.68	22	20.84
5	[5]	Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Center for the Study of Rationality, Jerusalem, Israel	4.89	8	7
6	[6]	Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) → School of Economics, Herzliya, Israel	5.50	11	8.62
7	[7]	University of Haifa → Department of Economics, Haifa, Israel	6.94	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	7.41	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	1.58	27	10
2	[2]	Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel	1.68	38	10
3	[3]	Bank of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel	3.26	37	10
4	[4]	Ben Gurion University of the Negev → Economics Department, Beer-Sheva, Israel	3.50	22	10
5	[5]	Bar Ilan University → Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan, Israel	5.13	21	10
6	[6]	Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) → School of Economics, Herzliya, Israel	5.91	11	8.62
7	[7]	University of Haifa → Department of Economics, Haifa, Israel	5.98	19	10
8	[8]	Bar Ilan University → Graduate School of Business Administration, Ramat-Gan, Israel	7.75	9	9

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Ariel Rubinstein	2.69
2	[3]	Manuel Trajtenberg	3.85
3	[9]	Yoram Weiss	4.51
4	[8]	Robert J. Aumann	5.57
5	[10]	Zvi Eckstein	7.24
6	[12]	Sergiu Hart	8.23
7	[11]	Eytan Sheshinski	8.32
8	[1]	Assaf Razin	8.78
9	[15]	Zvi Hercowitz	8.98
10	[4]	Victor Chaim Lavy	9.30
11	[14]	Joseph Zeira	9.96
12	[21]	Arye L. Hillman	12.16
13	[18]	Saul Lach	12.37
14	[22]	Shmuel Nitzan	12.47
15	[6]	Itzhak Gilboa	13.20
16	[20]	Eugene Kandel	14.27
17	[7]	Eddie Dekel	16.04
18	[19]	Efraim Sadka	17.06
19	[23]	Itzhak Zilcha	17.29
20	[24]	Eric D. Gould	18.62
21	[26]	Aner Sela	18.93
22	[36]	Jacques Silber	19.74
23	[27]	Neil Gandal	20.11
24	[29]	David Genesove	20.17
25	[5]	Joel Mokyr	21.77
26	[31]	Reuben Gronau	22.13
27	[28]	Daniel Levy	23.24
28	[37]	Itay Saporta Eksten	25.95
29	[34]	Daniel Tsiddon	26.65
30	[38]	Moses Shayo	26.88
31	[32]	Dov Samet	27.04
32	[13]	Chaim Fershtman	29.52
33	[52]	Ofer H. Azar	30.24
34	[42]	Raphael Franck	31.83
35	[17]	Ran Spiegler	32.12
36	[39]	Shmuel Zamir	33.13
37	[40]	Oscar Volij	33.90
38	[45]	Ady Pauzner	35.27
39	[46]	Analia Schlosser	35.47
40	[16]	Omer Moav	35.48
41	[54]	Michael Beenstock	35.77
42	[43]	Ori Heffetz	36.03
43	[41]	Dan Ben-David	37.00
44	[50]	Avraham Yehuda Ebenstein	37.63
45	[67]	Ayal Kimhi	38.09
46	[30]	Jonathan Benchimol	40.93
47	[55]	Moshe Justman	42.04
48	[58]	Yacov Tsur	42.29
49	[51]	Zvika Neeman	42.69
50	[44]	Eran Yashiv	42.89
51	[53]	Giora Hanoch	43.96
52	[56]	Joram Mayshar	44.50
53	[61]	Moshe Shiki Levy	44.69
54	[59]	Anat Bracha	44.75
55	[60]	Asaf Zussman	45.31
56	[62]	Esteban F. Klor (Esteban Klor)	47.18
57	[64]	Adi Brender	49.61
58	[65]	Abraham Neyman	51.46
59	[63]	Moshe Kim	51.73
60	[68]	Robert M. Sauer	55.21
61	[57]	Yaniv Grinstein	56.05
62	[74]	Ro'ee Levy	56.64
63	[69]	Ilan Cooper	56.87
64	[71]	Eilon Solan	58.54
65	[75]	Beni Lauterbach	59.42
66	[80]	Elise S. Brezis	59.61

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[4]	Ro'ee Levy	3.30
2	[7]	Moses Shayo	3.43
3	[2]	Victor Chaim Lavy	5.68
4	[12]	Raphael Franck	6.52
5	[8]	Itay Saporta Eksten	6.68
6	[11]	Neil Gandal	7.39
7	[5]	Jonathan Benchimol	8.95
8	[10]	Aner Sela	9.96
9	[18]	Jacques Silber	11.99
10	[16]	Ori Heffetz	12.38
11	[13]	Michael Amior	12.89
12	[14]	Dan Zeltzer	12.94
13	[19]	Nadav Ben Zeev	13.35
14	[17]	Yaniv Yedid-Levi	13.81
15	[6]	Ran Spiegler	14.76
16	[24]	Edith Sand	17.35
17	[1]	Joel Mokyr	17.78
18	[26]	Yevgeny Mugerman	18.37
19	[21]	Asaf Zussman	18.85
20	[25]	Oren Levintal	19.34
21	[30]	Menachem Meni Abudy	20.81
22	[35]	Manuel Trajtenberg	21.41
23	[20]	Ofer Setty	22.41
24	[23]	Sergiu Hart	23.89
25	[37]	Itamar Caspi	23.94
26	[22]	Eric D. Gould	24.30
27	[33]	Ofer H. Azar	24.44
28	[3]	Assaf Razin	25.45
29	[39]	Yannay Spitzer	26.31
30	[42]	Ilan Cooper	28.85
31	[28]	Zvi Eckstein	29.02
32	[36]	Naomi E. Feldman	29.06
33	[32]	Daniel Levy	29.11
34	[53]	Zeev Shtudiner	32.06
35	[46]	David Lagziel	32.42
36	[38]	Yuval Heller	33.26
37	[45]	Assaf Sarid	33.41
38	[41]	Andrey Kudryavtsev	33.96
39	[51]	Artyom Jelnov	34.05
40	[43]	רועי זולטן (Ro'i Zultan)	34.72
41	[49]	Osnat Lifshitz	35.33
42	[47]	Ohad Raveh	35.68
43	[50]	Assaf Romm	36.58
44	[29]	Robert J. Aumann	36.93
45	[58]	Elise S. Brezis	39.19
46	[56]	Yossi Saadon	39.36
47	[54]	Moti Michaeli	39.58
48	[55]	Moshe Justman	39.71
49	[63]	Ori Haimanko	39.77
50	[52]	Joram Mayshar	40.27
51	[66]	Arye L. Hillman	41.07
52	[15]	Itzhak Gilboa	41.99
53	[62]	Sigal Ribon	42.27
54	[64]	Yaniv Reingewertz	42.54
55	[70]	Shmuel Nitzan	43.31
56	[74]	David Weiss	44.29
57	[76]	Ori Shai	44.88
58	[57]	Naomi Gershoni	45.49
59	[80]	Ofir David Rubin	47.45
60	[88]	Tsafrir Livne	47.98
61	[77]	Zvi Wiener	48.54
62	[65]	Robert M. Sauer	48.76
63	[75]	Moshe Shiki Levy	49.00
64	[67]	Alon Raviv	49.14
65	[78]	Nimrod Segev	49.36
66	[44]	Ariel Rubinstein	49.54

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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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