People from Ottoman Palestine

Palestinian journalist (1896–1974)

Tunisian singer and musician

strongman in Palestine

Palestinian Arab soldier (1900 – 1940)

Palestinian writer

Israeli politician and pedagogue

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.

Jerusalem businessman

Hebrew Christian missionary (1837–1899)

Palestinian politician

Palestinian politician; mayor of Haifa

Jewish Zionist diaspora activist and co-founder of the first Zionist settlements in Israel/Palestine

19th-century Ottoman Empire governor

Palestinian businessman

Algerian Jewish town founder

Palestinian politician

Politician in Mandatory Palestine (1890–1938)

daughter of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and first native speaker of Modern Hebrew (1902-2004)

Palestinian politician and businessman (1902–1984)

Israeli Air Force personnel

Palestinian revolution leader (1894–1944)

Mayor of Jerusalem in the 19th century