Writers from Jerusalem

Flavius Josephus (born Yosef ben Mattityahu; ) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Best known for writing The Jewish War, he was born in Jerusalem—then part of the Roman province of Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed Hasmonean royal ancestry.

Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)

Israeli author (born 1954)

Jewish German poet (1869–1945)

German-American sex therapist

Greco-Roman Christian traveller and historian (c.160–c.240)

Israeli poet (1924-2000)

Israeli writer (1936–2022)

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr, commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi or al-Muqaddasī,, meaning Jerusalemite, was a medieval Arab geographer, author of The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions and Description of Syria (Including Palestine).

Israeli-American author

Israeli journalist

Palestinian historian (1925–2026)

Israeli actor and television producer

Palestinian novelist and short story writer

Israeli-born British jazz musician and author

Palestinian poet (1878–1953)

Israeli film director

German writer (1927–2016)

America-Israel writer

Palestinian poet and activist

prophet

Arab-born Italian writer and activist of Palestinian and Nigerian descent

Palestinian historian (1904–2004)

Israeli actor

Israeli writer

Israeli writer (1886–1969)

Israeli physician, author and playwright (born 1952)

Palestinian-American writer

Israeli writer (born 1941)

Palestinian writer

American journalist (1905–1981)

painter

Israeli writer (1926–1997)

Israeli-born chef, cookery writer and restaurant owner

Israeli author and politician

Israeli writer

Palestinian scholar and writer (1929–2019)

Palestinian visual artist

Israeli researcher and writer

Israeli historian of the Holocaust

Israeli peace activist, author, and karate instructor

Israeli architectural historian

Palestinian writer and musician (1897-1973)

Jewish educator, writer and scholar

rabbi, educator, writer and prominent Zionist activist (1879–1935)

Israeli rabbi and author

Israeli poet

Israeli American businessman

British writer (1939–2004)

Palestinian writer

Palestinian American historian (born 1944)

Israeli politician

Palestinian poet

Palestinian historian

Israeli poet

Jewish Palestinian linguist (1877-1951)

Palestinian poet

Israeli historian

Israeli fiction writer (1941–2017)

Israeli-American translator