Yuval Ne'eman (Hebrew: יובל נאמן‎; 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician.

Yuval Ne'eman was born in Tel Aviv[2] during the Mandate era, graduated from high school at the age of 15, and studied mechanical engineering at the Technion.

In this role, he helped organize the IDF into a reservist-based army, developed the mobilization system, and wrote the first draft of Israel's defense doctrine.

One of his greatest achievements in physics was his 1961 discovery of the classification of hadrons through the SU(3) flavour symmetry, now named the Eightfold Way, which was also proposed independently by Murray Gell-Mann.

He also served on the Israel Atomic Energy Commission from 1965 to 1984 and held the position of scientific director in its Soreq facility.

[6] In the late 1970s, Ne'eman founded Tehiya, a right-wing breakaway from Likud, formed in opposition to Menachem Begin's support for the Camp David talks that paved the way for peace with Egypt and the evacuation of Yamit.