Category
page 1Ashkenazi Jews from Ottoman Palestine
David Ben-Gurion
Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) - (born1886–1973)
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
Levi Eshkol
Israeli politician, a founder of the Israeli Labor Party and Prime Minister (1895-1969)
Moshe Sharett
2nd Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Russian Jewish poet, founder of Revisionist Zionist movement (1880–1940)

Yigal Allon
Israeli politician, general, acting prime minister of Israel (1918–1980)
Sarah Aaronsohn
Jewish spy working for the British in World War I (1890–1917)
Rachel Bluwstein
Hebrew poet (1890-1931)
A. D. Gordon
Russian-Jewish philosopher, worker, and educator
Aaron Aaronsohn
Jewish agronomist, botanist, and Zionist activist (1876-1919)
Tony Cliff
British activist (1917-2000)
Itamar Ben-Avi
Israeli journalist and Zionist activist (1882-1943)
Yehoshua Hankin
Zionist activist
Nathan of Gaza
prophet
Israel Belkind
Russian historian
Shaul Avigur
Israeli politician (1899-1978)
Gershon Agron
Israeli journalist & politician (1893–1959)
Ira Yan
Russian painter, Hebrew writer (1869-1919)
Reuven Rubin
Israeli artist (1893-1974)

Akiva Aryeh Weiss
אתי הקונפטי (1868–1947)
Abraham Harzfeld
Israeli politician
Dov Hoz
Israeli aviation pioneer (1894-1940)
Israel Aharoni
zoologist (1882-1946)
Avraham Shapira
Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993)
David HaCohen
Israeli politician
Baruch Agadati
Israeli artist (1895-1976)
Jacob Saphir
Romanian Meschulach (1822–1885)

Neta Harpaz
Israeli politician
Frenkel brothers
three Egyptian Jewish brothers that pioneered animated film in Egypt
Yisrael Bak
Russian Jewish publisher
Olga Hankin
midwife and Activist
Haim Ariav
Israeli politician (1895-1957)
Israel Dov Frumkin
Israeli newspaper editor (1850–1914)
Abraham Moses Luncz
Jerusalem academic and journalist (1854–1918)
Alexander Aaronsohn
Jewish author and activist (1888-1948)
David Yellin
Jewish educator, writer and scholar
Naaman Belkind
Jewish spy
Tobias Cohn
Polish physician
Levin Kipnis
Israeli writer (1894-1990)
Mendel Portugali
Founder of Hashomer
Perushim
The perushim () were Jewish disciples of the Vilna Gaon, Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, who left Lithuania at the beginning of the 19th century to settle in the Land of Israel, which was then part of Ottoman Syria. They were from the section of the community known as misnagdim (opponents of Hasidic Judaism) in Lithuania. They were part of the Old Yishuv.
Esther Raab
Israeli poet (1894–1981)
Yoel Moshe Salomon
Jewish Zionist diaspora activist and co-founder of the first Zionist settlements in Israel/Palestine
Gad Frumkin
Israeli jurist
Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittmann
daughter of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and first native speaker of Modern Hebrew (1902-2004)