Category
page 1People from Ottoman Palestine
Yigal Allon
Israeli politician, general, acting prime minister of Israel (1918–1980)
Yigael Yadin
Israeli archeologist, military officer and politician (1917–1984)
Moses Montefiore
British financier and Jewish activist (1784–1885)
Karimeh Abbud
Palestinian professional photographer and artist (1893–1940)
Sarah Aaronsohn
Jewish spy working for the British in World War I (1890–1917)
Gracia Mendes Nasi
Portuguese businesswoman
Reuven Shiloah
Director of Mossad from 1949 to 1953
Judah Alkalai
rabbi (1798–1878)
Moshe Castel
Israeli artist (1909–1991)
Tony Cliff
British activist (1917-2000)
Avshalom Feinberg
Jewish British spy (1889–1917)
Musa al-Husayni
Ottoman politician (1853–1934)
Aref al-Aref
Palestinian journalist, historian and politician (1891-1973)
Raghib al-Nashashibi
Ottoman-Palestnianian-Jordanian politician (1881-1951)
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit
Israeli politician
Hermann Struck
German Jewish painter, officer, translator and etcher (1876-1944)
Nathan of Gaza
prophet
Kamil al-Husayni
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (1867–1921)
Israel Rokach
Israeli politician (1896–1959)
Aref al-Dajani
Palestinian politician, mayor of Jerusalem (1917-1918)
Yousef al-Khalidi
Ottoman politician (1829–1907)
Amin-Salim Jarjora
Palestinian-Israeli politician and poet
Faras Hamdan
Israeli Arab politician
Eliyahu Sasson
Israeli politician, diplomat and minister (1902–1978)
Mahmud Al-Nashaf
Israeli politician
Diyab Obeid
Palestinian politician (1911-1984)
Reuven Rubin
Israeli artist (1893-1974)
Sara Levi-Tanai
Israeli choreographer and song writer
Hussein al-Husayni
Palestinian politician
Bracha Tzfira
Israeli singer
Salah-Hassan Hanifes
Israeli politician (1913-2002)
Tawfiq Canaan
Palestinian physician and author (1882-1964)
Ahmed A-Dahar
Israeli Arab politician
Faidi al-Alami
Palestinian politician (1881–1924)
Avraham Shapira
Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993)
Said al-Shawa
Palestinian mayor
Jamal al-Husayni
Palestinian politician
Elias Nakhleh
Israeli politician
Salim al-Husayni
Palestinian politician
Jacob Berab
rabbi and kabbalist
Rafiq al-Tamimi
Palestinian politician (1889–1957)
Saleh Suleiman
Israeli politician
Eliyahu HaCarmeli
Israeli politician
Frenkel brothers
three Egyptian Jewish brothers that pioneered animated film in Egypt
Avraham Kalfon
Israeli politician (1900–1983)
Moshe Wallach
Jerusalem physician
Zvi Berenson
Israeli jurist
Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad
Palestinian Arab commander
Tobias Cohn
Polish physician
Avraham-Haim Shag
Israeli politician
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
Palestinian writer and musician (1897-1973)
Naaman Belkind
Jewish spy
Benjamin Shahor
Israeli politician (1916–1979)
Moshe Ben-Ami
Israeli politician
Yaqub al-Ghusayn
Palestinian politician (1899–1947)
Mendel Portugali
Founder of Hashomer
Ahmad Agha Duzdar
Mayor of Jerusalem, 1838 to 1863
Nashashibi clan
prominent Palestinian family based in Jerusalem
Elazar ben Moshe Azikri
kabbalist, rabbi
Schwester Selma
Head nurse, Shaare Zedek Hospital