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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in West Jerusalem during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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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 rabbi — 79.1× the global rate.
West Jerusalem under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.
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.
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Edward Said
1935 - 2003
Amos Oz
1939 - 2018
Ada Yonath
Born 1939
A. B. Yehoshua
Born 1936
Reuven Rivlin
Born 1939
Eliahu Inbal
Born 1936
Adin Steinsaltz
1937 - 2020
Yehoram Gaon
Born 1939
Rika Zaraï
Born 1938
Mordechai Gur
1930 - 1995
Theodore Zeldin
Born 1933
Ehud Netzer
1934 - 2010
Yossi Banai
1932 - 2006
Ram Karmi
1931 - 2013
Buky Schwartz
1932 - 2009
Meron Benvenisti
1934 - 2020
Ofer Bar-Yosef
1937 - 2020
Meir Zarchi
Born 1937
Moshe Levinger
1935 - 2015
Daniel Friedmann
Born 1936
Uzi Baram
Born 1937
Isaac Berger
Born 1936
Tarif Khalidi
Born 1938
Nechama Hendel
1936 - 1998
Gideon Ezra
1937 - 2012
Yisrael Ariel
Born 1939
Yitzhak Katznelson
Born 1934
Yair Tzaban
Born 1930
Amnon Kapeliouk
1930 - 2009
David Ussishkin
Born 1935
David Kroyanker
Born 1939
Shmulik Kraus
1935 - 2013
Eliezer Cohen
Born 1934
Menachem Hacohen
Born 1932
Gideon Patt
1933 - 2020
Eli Shamir
Born 1934
Moshe Nissim
Born 1935
Ya'akov Meshorer
1935 - 2004
Avner Shalev
Born 1939
Rivka Michaeli
Born 1938
Israel Eliraz
1936 - 2016
Gad Horowitz
Born 1936
Yehoshua Matza
Born 1931
Arieh Ben-Naim
Born 1934
Eddy Zemach
Born 1935
Faris Glubb
1939 - 2004
Mounir Chafiq
Born 1936
Menahem E. Yaari
Born 1935
Eli Hurvitz
1932 - 2011
Yosef Ba-Gad
Born 1932
Micha Perles
Born 1936
Raphael Maklouf
Born 1937
Ruchama Marton
Born 1937
Uriel Lynn
Born 1935
Pinchas Hacohen Peli
1930 - 1989
Eliezer Goldberg
Born 1931
Efi Arazi
1937 - 2013
Yehezkel Flomin
1935 - 2019
Jose Mugrabi
Born 1939
Meir Shmuel Gabay
1933 - 2010
Yael Rom
1932 - 2006
Joseph Ginat
1936 - 2009
Ja'afar Tuqan
1938 - 2014
Haim Hanegbi
1933 - 2018
Nahid al-Rayyis
1937 - 2010
Nahum Rakover
Born 1932
Danny Rubinstein
Born 1937
Amnon Marinov
1930 - 2011
Yaakov Meir Shechter
Born 1932
Batsheva Kanievsky
1932 - 2011
Avigdor Nebenzahl
Born 1935
Asher Reich
Born 1937
Shmuel Auerbach
1931 - 2018
Reuven Adiv
1930 - 2004
Moshe Efrati
1934 - 2020
Eliezer Weishoff
Born 1938
Dalia Amotz
1938 - 1994
Jumana El Husseini
1932 - 2018
Miriam Gross
Born 1939
Refael (Rafi) Benvenisti
Born 1937
Elchanan Meir
1936 - 2014
Yehoshua Sagi
Born 1933
Hanna Siniora
Born 1937
Ezriel Auerbach
Born 1938
Ruth Rasnic
Born 1932
Michal Har'el
1931 - 2012
Manoug Manougian
Born 1936
Samir Ghawshah
1937 - 2009
Shimon Levinson
Born 1933
Shalom Cohen (rabbi)
Born 1931
Ariel Weinstein
1932 - 1996
Hannah Gavron
1936 - 1965
Gad Avigad
Born 1930
Matanya Ophee
1932 - 2017
Miriam Hadar Weingarten
Born 1935
Emmanuel Shaked
1930 - 2018
Yitzchok Ezrachi
Born 1934
Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain
1934 - 1969
Moshe Zar
Born 1938
Abu Maher Ghneim
Born 1937
Raffaele Canger
1938 - 2019
Jerry Kevorkian
Born 1933
Schulamit König
Born 1930
Ram Caspi
Born 1939
David Kaminsky
Born 1938
Shimon Elituv
Born 1937
Dan Meyerstein
Born 1938
Jossi Kaufmann
1936 - 2017
Ulrich Bienzle
1939 - 2008
Ya'akov Gil (politician born 1931)
1931 - 2007
Walid Muhammed Sadi
Born 1939
Eliezer E. Goldschmidt
Born 1938
Miriam Kara
Born 1938
Albert Jamil Butros
Born 1934