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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0004 WRITER

Edward Said

1935 - 2003

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0005 WRITER

Amos Oz

1939 - 2018

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0015 BIOLOGIST

Ada Yonath

Born 1939

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0018 WRITER

A. B. Yehoshua

Born 1936

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0030 POLITICIAN

Reuven Rivlin

Born 1939

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0040 CONDUCTOR

Eliahu Inbal

Born 1936

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0046 EDUCATOR

Adin Steinsaltz

1937 - 2020

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0047 SINGER

Yehoram Gaon

Born 1939

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0053 SINGER

Rika Zaraï

Born 1938

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0059 POLITICIAN

Mordechai Gur

1930 - 1995

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0069 HISTORIAN

Theodore Zeldin

Born 1933

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0074 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Ehud Netzer

1934 - 2010

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0105 SINGER

Yossi Banai

1932 - 2006

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0117 ARCHITECT

Ram Karmi

1931 - 2013

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0118 SCULPTOR

Buky Schwartz

1932 - 2009

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0119 POLITICAL

Meron Benvenisti

1934 - 2020

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0122 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Ofer Bar-Yosef

1937 - 2020

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0139 FILM

Meir Zarchi

Born 1937

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0147 RABBI

Moshe Levinger

1935 - 2015

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0168 PROFESSOR

Daniel Friedmann

Born 1936

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0186 POLITICIAN

Uzi Baram

Born 1937

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0192 WEIGHTLIFTER

Isaac Berger

Born 1936

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0193 SCHOLAR

Tarif Khalidi

Born 1938

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0204 SINGER

Nechama Hendel

1936 - 1998

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0209 POLITICIAN

Gideon Ezra

1937 - 2012

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0210 RABBI

Yisrael Ariel

Born 1939

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0214 MATHEMATICIAN

Yitzhak Katznelson

Born 1934

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0221 POLITICIAN

Yair Tzaban

Born 1930

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0229 JOURNALIST

Amnon Kapeliouk

1930 - 2009

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0233 ANTHROPOLOGIST

David Ussishkin

Born 1935

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0249 ARCHITECT

David Kroyanker

Born 1939

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0254 ACTOR

Shmulik Kraus

1935 - 2013

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0255 POLITICIAN

Eliezer Cohen

Born 1934

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0268 POLITICIAN

Menachem Hacohen

Born 1932

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0277 POLITICIAN

Gideon Patt

1933 - 2020

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0294 MATHEMATICIAN

Eli Shamir

Born 1934

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0303 POLITICIAN

Moshe Nissim

Born 1935

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0304 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Ya'akov Meshorer

1935 - 2004

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0323 MARTYR

Avner Shalev

Born 1939

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0324 ACTOR

Rivka Michaeli

Born 1938

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0327 POET

Israel Eliraz

1936 - 2016

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0334 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Gad Horowitz

Born 1936

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0336 POLITICAL

Yehoshua Matza

Born 1931

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0347 CHEMIST

Arieh Ben-Naim

Born 1934

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0354 PHILOSOPHER

Eddy Zemach

Born 1935

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0356 WRITER

Faris Glubb

1939 - 2004

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0360 POLITICIAN

Mounir Chafiq

Born 1936

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0366 ECONOMIST

Menahem E. Yaari

Born 1935

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0377 MANAGER

Eli Hurvitz

1932 - 2011

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0380 POLITICIAN

Yosef Ba-Gad

Born 1932

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0388 MATHEMATICIAN

Micha Perles

Born 1936

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0393 SCULPTOR

Raphael Maklouf

Born 1937

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0394 PSYCHIATRIST

Ruchama Marton

Born 1937

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0400 LAWYER

Uriel Lynn

Born 1935

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0402 POET

Pinchas Hacohen Peli

1930 - 1989

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0404 JUDGE

Eliezer Goldberg

Born 1931

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0413 ENTREPRENEUR

Efi Arazi

1937 - 2013

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0420 POLITICIAN

Yehezkel Flomin

1935 - 2019

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0427 COLLECTOR

Jose Mugrabi

Born 1939

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0433 LAWYER

Meir Shmuel Gabay

1933 - 2010

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0446 AIR FORCE

Yael Rom

1932 - 2006

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0447 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Joseph Ginat

1936 - 2009

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0451 ARCHITECT

Ja'afar Tuqan

1938 - 2014

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0461 JOURNALIST

Haim Hanegbi

1933 - 2018

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0468 POET

Nahid al-Rayyis

1937 - 2010

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0476 SCHOLAR

Nahum Rakover

Born 1932

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0480 JOURNALIST

Danny Rubinstein

Born 1937

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0488 SCIENTIST

Amnon Marinov

1930 - 2011

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0494 TEACHER

Yaakov Meir Shechter

Born 1932

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0497 REBBE

Batsheva Kanievsky

1932 - 2011

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0502 RABBI

Avigdor Nebenzahl

Born 1935

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0531 AUTHOR

Asher Reich

Born 1937

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0546 RABBI

Shmuel Auerbach

1931 - 2018

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0549 ACTOR

Reuven Adiv

1930 - 2004

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0551 CHOREOGRAPHER

Moshe Efrati

1934 - 2020

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0558 ARTIST

Eliezer Weishoff

Born 1938

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0568 PHOTOGRAPHER

Dalia Amotz

1938 - 1994

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0569 PAINTER

Jumana El Husseini

1932 - 2018

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0571 LITERARY

Miriam Gross

Born 1939

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0579 ECONOMIST

Refael (Rafi) Benvenisti

Born 1937

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0582 PSYCHOLOGIST

Elchanan Meir

1936 - 2014

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0585 POLITICIAN

Yehoshua Sagi

Born 1933

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0589 BUSINESS

Hanna Siniora

Born 1937

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0595 REBBE

Ezriel Auerbach

Born 1938

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0618 POLITICAL

Ruth Rasnic

Born 1932

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0671 FEMINIST

Michal Har'el

1931 - 2012

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0681 SCIENTIST

Manoug Manougian

Born 1936

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0684 POLITICIAN

Samir Ghawshah

1937 - 2009

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0699 INTELLIGENCE

Shimon Levinson

Born 1933

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0703 RABBI

Shalom Cohen (rabbi)

Born 1931

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0707 POLITICIAN

Ariel Weinstein

1932 - 1996

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0712 SOCIOLOGIST

Hannah Gavron

1936 - 1965

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0723 BIOCHEMIST

Gad Avigad

Born 1930

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0728 GUITAR

Matanya Ophee

1932 - 2017

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0734 JOURNALIST

Miriam Hadar Weingarten

Born 1935

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0747 MILITAR

Emmanuel Shaked

1930 - 2018

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0748 RABBI

Yitzchok Ezrachi

Born 1934

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0759 RABBI

Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain

1934 - 1969

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0766 BUSINESS

Moshe Zar

Born 1938

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0783 POLITICIAN

Abu Maher Ghneim

Born 1937

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0788 NEUROLOGIST

Raffaele Canger

1938 - 2019

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0791 MATHEMATICIAN

Jerry Kevorkian

Born 1933

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0793 ACTIVIST

Schulamit König

Born 1930

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0794 LAWYER

Ram Caspi

Born 1939

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0796 BASKET

David Kaminsky

Born 1938

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0804 RABBI

Shimon Elituv

Born 1937

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0823 CHEMIST

Dan Meyerstein

Born 1938

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0834 PHOTOGRAPHER

Jossi Kaufmann

1936 - 2017

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0843 ACADEMIC

Ulrich Bienzle

1939 - 2008

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0844 POLITICIAN

Ya'akov Gil (politician born 1931)

1931 - 2007

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0857 AMBASSADOR

Walid Muhammed Sadi

Born 1939

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0871 ACADEMIC

Eliezer E. Goldschmidt

Born 1938

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0874 OLYMPIC

Miriam Kara

Born 1938

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0908 DEAN

Albert Jamil Butros

Born 1934

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