Prof Yisrael Aumann was born in Frankfurt in 1930 and fled 2 weeks before Kristallnacht.
He won the 2005 Economics Nobel Prize for his work on conflict & cooperation in game theory analysis.
He is a member of Professors for a Strong Israel, opposed the disengagement from Gaza in 2005 and has drawn on a case in game theory called the Blackmailer Paradox to argue that giving land to the Arabs is Strategically foolish based on the mathematical theory.