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Isaac Shamir
7th Prime Minister of Israel (1915-2012)
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
Boris Gelfand
Belarusian-Israeli chess player
Paul Baran
American engineer (1926–2011)
Mendele Mocher Sforim
Yiddish-Hebrew writer (1836-1917)
Issai Schur
German mathematician (1875–1941)
Isser Harel
Israeli politician (1912-2003)
Immanuel Velikovsky
Russian, Israeli and American author (1895–1979)
Leonid Mandelstam
Soviet physicist
Alexander Parvus
German political activist (1867–1924)
Yevno Azef
Russian revolutionary (1869–1918)
S. An-sky
Russian Jewish author (1863-1920)
Anna Smashnova
Belarusian-born Israeli tennis player
Sofya Yanovskaya
Russian mathematician (1896–1966)
Mikhail Borodin
Comintern agent (1884-1951)
Ilya Smirin
Belarusian-Israeli chess player
Vladimir Motyl
Soviet theater and film director (1927-2010)
Bella Rosenfeld
American writer and artist model (1889-1944)
Peter Blume
American artist (1906-1992)
Yehuda Pen
Belarusian artist (1854-1937)
Źmitrok Biadula
Jewish Belarusian poet, writer, political activist (1886–1941)
Vladimir Resin
Russian politician
Hanna Rovina
Israeli actress (1892-1980)
Itzhak Katzenelson
Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist, murdered in Holocaust (1886-1944)
Kadia Molodovsky
Yiddish-language American poet and writer
Menachem Ussishkin
Jewish politician (1863–1941)
history of the Jews in Belarus
aspect of history
Lev Dovator
Soviet major general (1903–1941)
Aleksandr Volodin
Russian screenwriter and author (1919–2001)
Nikolai Minsky
Russian poet (1855–1937)
Chaim Laskov
5th Chief of General Staff of Israel Defence Forces (1919–1982)
Naum Akhiezer
Russian mathematician (1901–1980)
Boris Galerkin
Russian mathematician (1871–1945)
Abraham Harkavy
Russian historian (1835–1919)
Michel Kikoine
Belarusian-French artist of Jewish origin (1892—1968)
Ester Rachel Kamińska
Polish actress (1870–1925)
Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
First Lady of Israel (1885–1975)
Eliezer Kaplan
Israeli politician (1891-1952)
Eugeniusz Zak
Polish artist (1884-1926)
Moyshe Kulbak
Soviet writer (1896-1937)
Yakov Yakovlev
Soviet politician (1896-1938)
Nachman Syrkin
political theorist (1868–1924)
Abraham Foxman
former national director of the Anti-Defamation League
Moisey Ostrogorsky
Belarusian academic (1854-1921)
Jennie Tourel
singer (1900–1973)
Moshe Kol
Israeli politician (1911-1989)
David Pinski
Yiddish language writer (1872 – 1959)
Semyon Furman
Soviet chess player (1920–1978)
Abraham Kupchik
American chess player (1892–1970)
Arkady Rosengolts
Soviet politician (1889–1938)
Efraim Sevela
Russian writer (1928–2010)
Israel Belkind
Russian historian
Vera Slutskaya
Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik member of the Duma (1874–1917)
Zair Azgur
Soviet sculptor (1908-1995)
Eitan Livni
Israeli politician (1919–1991)
Aleksandr Akhiezer
Soviet theoretical physicist (1911–2000)
Lyubov Axelrod
Russian philosopher (1868–1946)
Mark Fradkin
Soviet composer (1914–1990)
Mordechai Limon
Israeli military officer (1924–2009)
Josef Gusikov
Belarusian musician (1806–1837)