31.7792° N, 35.2250° E

WEST JERUSALEM

Most Famous People Born in West Jerusalem, Israel

Notable people
916
Peak decade
1940s
Median birth year
1946
Most distinctive
Rabbi 79.1×

The most religiously over-indexed city on earth — the Rabbi bench runs at nearly eighty times the global baseline, an unbroken line from the ancient yeshivot through the Old Yishuv to today's seminaries. The thick Scholar and Computer Scientist depth belongs to the Hebrew University and the Givat Ram campus, where ancient textual study and modern cryptography share the same hilltop.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in West Jerusalem during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1940s with 153 notable births.

What West Jerusalem Is Known For

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Politician is West Jerusalem's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (92).

West Jerusalem over-indexes on rabbi79.1× the global rate.

West Jerusalem under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.

  1. Politician92
  2. Rabbi81
  3. Football50
  4. Writer40
  5. Singer33
  6. Film28
  7. Actor27
  8. Journalist25
  1. Rabbi8179.1×
  2. Educator912.4×
  3. Scholar1110.9×
  4. Computer Scientist118.6×
  5. Activist94.5×
  6. Mathematician163.5×
  7. Diplomat183.4×
  8. Photographer143.2×
  1. Football500.5×
  2. Actor270.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of West Jerusalem's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

155016001650170017501800185019001950
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Showing 83 of 916 notable people

0002 POLITICIAN

Yitzhak Rabin

1922 - 1995

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0025 WRITER

Yitzhak Navon

1921 - 2015

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0037 POLITICIAN

Rehavam Ze'evi

1926 - 2001

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0051 MILITAR

Uzi Narkiss

1925 - 1997

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0066 ACTOR

Shaike Ophir

1929 - 1987

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0071 DIPLOMAT

Shlomo Argov

1929 - 2003

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0081 HISTORIAN

Walid Khalidi

Born 1925

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0084 RABBI

Mordechai Eliyahu

1929 - 2010

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0095 PHILOSOPHER

Joseph Agassi

Born 1927

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0109 MATHEMATICIAN

Shimshon Amitsur

1921 - 1994

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0110 FILM

Seth Holt

1923 - 1971

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0140 HISTORIAN

Meir Pa'il

1926 - 2015

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0150 GENERALMAJOR

Mordechai Hod

1926 - 2003

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0152 BUSINESS

Shlomo Moussaieff (businessman)

1925 - 2015

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0170 WRITER

David Shahar

1926 - 1997

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0172 HISTORIAN

Hanna Batatu

1926 - 2000

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0181 MILITAR

Meir Feinstein

1927 - 1947

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0196 LAWYER

Shmuel Tamir

1923 - 1987

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0213 RABBI

She'ar Yashuv Cohen

1927 - 2016

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0225 RABBI

Ben Zion Abba Shaul

1924 - 1998

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0234 MATHEMATICIAN

Michael Maschler

1927 - 2008

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0235 OFFICER

Nahum Admoni

Born 1929

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0238 CHEMIST

David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

1922 - 2014

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0263 ARTIST

Paul Guiragossian

1925 - 1993

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0267 ACTOR

Yossi Yadin

1920 - 2001

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0275 TRANSLATOR

Issa J. Boullata

1929 - 2019

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0292 CONDUCTOR

Ohan Durian

1922 - 2011

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0298 MUFTI

Serene Husseini Shahid

1920 - 2008

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0302 LINGUIST

Uzzi Ornan

Born 1923

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0333 POLITICIAN

Haim Corfu

1921 - 2015

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0339 POLITICIAN

Hazem Nuseibeh

Born 1922

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0344 ACTOR

Godfrey Quigley

1923 - 1994

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0346 DIPLOMAT

Samir Shihabi

1925 - 2010

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0385 MUSIC

Meir Nakar

1926 - 1947

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0392 MILITAR

Yisrael Galil

1923 - 1995

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0397 ENGINEER

Ibrahim Dakkak

1929 - 2016

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0423 SCHOLAR

Eliezer Schweid

Born 1929

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0428 RABBI

Hayim David HaLevi

1924 - 1998

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0443 POLITICIAN

Meir Avizohar

1923 - 2008

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0457 JOURNALIST

Boaz Evron

1927 - 2018

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0459 POLITICIAN

Elazar Granot

1927 - 2013

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0463 SCHOLAR

Amos Hakham

1921 - 2012

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0487 EDUCATOR

Elad Peled

Born 1927

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0500 MISSING

Alexander Rubowitz

1929 - 1947

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0506 RABBI

Yisroel Yaakov Fisher

1928 - 2003

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0512 ART HISTORIAN

Bezalel Narkiss

1926 - 2008

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0519 PSYCHOLOGIST

Sara Smilansky

1922 - 2006

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0529 POLITICIAN

Zuhdi Labib Terzi

1924 - 2006

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0533 PAINTER

Abraham Yakin

1924 - 2020

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0534 EDUCATOR

Noga Hareuveni

1924 - 2007

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0538 BIOCHEMIST

Yehuda Lapidot

Born 1928

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0544 RABBI

Zundel Kroizer

1924 - 2014

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0574 ACADEMIC

Gavriel Cohen

Born 1928

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0577 RABBI

Gedaliah Aharon Koenig

1921 - 1980

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0584 JUDGE

Yosef Harish

1923 - 2013

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0586 MILITAR

Amos Horev

Born 1924

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0608 EDUCATOR

Yosef Shapira

1926 - 2013

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0630 WRITER

Nazik Saba Yared

Born 1928

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0641 BUSINESS

Salomón Cohen Levy

1927 - 2018

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0643 ORIENTALIST

William A. Smalley

1923 - 1997

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0646 RABBI

Jehuda Mualam

1921 - 2010

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0654 JOURNALIST

Yuval Elizur

Born 1927

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0656 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

P. J. Vatikiotis

1928 - 1997

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0667 FOOTBALL

Nisim Elmaliah

1928 - 1989

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0682 JUDGE

Adi Bitar

1924 - 1973

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0693 BOTANIST

Daniel Zohary

1926 - 2016

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0701 PAINTER

Géula Dagan

1925 - 2008

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0711 EDUCATOR

Yehuda Perah

1924 - 1998

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0718 ACTOR

Ariel Absalón

1923 - 2006

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0724 RABBI

Baruch Ben Haim

1921 - 2005

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0784 RABBI

Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht

1924 - 1994

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0787 SOLDIER

Siman-Tov Ganeh

1924 - 1968

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0802 RABBI

Yechiel Fishel Eisenbach

1925 - 2008

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0807 POLITICIAN

Menachem Cohen (politician)

1922 - 1975

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0809 SPORT

Dov Ben-Dov

1927 - 2020

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0819 WRITER

Yaakov Blau

1929 - 2013

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0836 PSYCHIATRIST

Allen Bartholomew

1925 - 2004

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0837 RABBI

Amram Zaks

1926 - 2012

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0851 EDUCATOR

Sholom Rivkin

1926 - 2011

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0861 RABBI

Zalman I. Posner

1927 - 2014

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0863 POLITICIAN

Amin Yunis al Husseini

1929 - 2016

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0897 BUSINESS

Cy Leslie

1922 - 2008

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0911 CIVIL SERVICE

Nijmeddin Dajani

Born 1928

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