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.

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0017 CONVICT

Sirhan Sirhan

Born 1944

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0026 PHYSICIST

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

1947 - 2011

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0028 MATHEMATICIAN

Saharon Shelah

Born 1945

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0045 HISTORIAN

Tom Segev

Born 1945

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0057 FILM

Makram Khoury

Born 1945

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0079 POLITICIAN

Dan Meridor

Born 1947

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0083 POLITICIAN

Uri Davis

Born 1943

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0085 PHILOLOGIST

Nurit Peled-Elhanan

Born 1949

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0087 JOURNALIST

Ron Ben-Yishai

Born 1943

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0090 ACADEMIC

Ruth Gavison

1945 - 2020

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0093 POLITICIAN

Benny Begin

Born 1943

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0096 FILM

Amos Kollek

Born 1947

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0099 AUTHOR

Nurit Zarchi

Born 1941

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0102 HISTORIAN

Gabriel Gorodetsky

Born 1945

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0123 HISTORIAN

Yoav Gelber

Born 1943

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0129 POLITICIAN

Miklós Haraszti

Born 1945

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0133 WRITER

Adèle Geras

Born 1944

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0136 PHYSICIST

Shlomo Havlin

Born 1942

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0144 HISTORIAN

Moshe Zimmermann

Born 1943

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0159 HISTORIAN

Itamar Rabinovich

Born 1942

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0164 SCULPTOR

Dudu Gerstein

Born 1944

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0167 FLYING ACE

Iftach Spector

Born 1940

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0169 POLITICIAN

Bassam Abu Sharif

Born 1946

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0173 TEACHER

Rachel Elior

Born 1949

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0185 POLITICIAN

Matan Vilnai

Born 1944

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0190 WRITER

Amnon Dankner

1946 - 2013

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0191 PHILOSOPHER

Asa Kasher

Born 1940

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0198 ACADEMIC

Naomi Chazan

Born 1946

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0199 CONDUCTOR

Uri Segal

Born 1944

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0200 BIOCHEMIST

Alexander Levitzki

Born 1940

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0206 HISTORIAN

Yair Auron

Born 1945

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0212 POLITICIAN

Ze'ev Boim

1943 - 2011

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0217 AUTHOR

Haim Be'er

Born 1945

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0218 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Shimon Ullman

Born 1948

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0219 JUDGE

Miriam Naor

Born 1947

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0226 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Joel Moses

Born 1941

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0237 COMEDIAN

Menachem Zilberman

1946 - 2014

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0239 PHYSICIST

Haim Harari

Born 1940

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0242 FILM

Dan Wolman

Born 1941

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0245 POLITICIAN

Ya'akov Yosef

1946 - 2013

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0247 POLITICIAN

Eli Cohen (politician born 1949)

Born 1949

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0256 FENCER

Dan Alon

1945 - 2018

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0261 PSYCHOLOGIST

Avner Falk

Born 1943

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0264 ACTOR

Yisrael Poliakov

1941 - 2007

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0270 POLITICIAN

Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin

Born 1941

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0276 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Tsvi Misinai

Born 1946

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0280 FOOTBALL

Roni Shuruk

Born 1946

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0285 POLITICIAN

Tzvia Greenfeld

Born 1945

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0286 RABBI

Shalom Dov Wolpo

Born 1948

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0288 JUDGE

Edna Arbel

Born 1944

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0289 CINEMA

Hanania Baer

Born 1943

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0290 ARTIST

Michael Druks

Born 1940

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0306 WRITER

Ibrahim Souss

Born 1945

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0310 WRITER

Nurith Gertz

Born 1940

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0315 RABBI

Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron

1941 - 2020

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0316 FOOTBALL

Yechiel Hameiri

Born 1949

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0317 ACTIVIST

Chaïm Nissim

1949 - 2017

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0321 ECONOMIST

Eli Noam

Born 1946

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0322 PAINTER

Michael Sgan-Cohen

1944 - 1999

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0340 JOURNALIST

Adam Baruch

1945 - 2008

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0342 MUSIC

Yair Kless

Born 1940

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0349 ECONOMIST

David Zilberman (economist)

Born 1947

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0358 ARCHITECT

Rasem Badran

Born 1945

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0372 ARTIST

Dan Chamizer

Born 1947

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0378 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Orna Berry

Born 1949

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0395 PHYSICIST

Zvi Ben-Avraham

Born 1941

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0408 RABBI

Eliezer Shlomo Schick

1940 - 2015

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0409 LIBRARIAN

Yitzchak Sheilat

Born 1946

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0411 ARTIST

Kamal Boullata

1942 - 2019

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0429 HISTORIAN

Esther Farbstein

Born 1946

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0435 PIANIST

Bob Sedergreen

Born 1943

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0440 JOURNALIST

Yosef Ahimeir

Born 1943

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0445 HISTORIAN

Yaron Tsur

Born 1948

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0453 POLITICIAN

Ze'ev Bielski

Born 1949

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0460 JOURNALIST

Israel Segal

1944 - 2007

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0466 PAINTER

Avraham Diskin

Born 1947

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0474 OFFICER

Eitan Ben Eliyahu

Born 1944

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0479 JUDGE

Eliezer Rivlin

Born 1942

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0484 RABBI

Shimon Gershon Rosenberg

1949 - 2007

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0486 REPRESENTATIVE

Dan Gillerman

Born 1944

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0491 PSYCHOLOGIST

Mubarak Awad

Born 1943

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0510 DESIGNER

Raphie Etgar

Born 1947

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0528 DIPLOMAT

Yoram Ben-Zeev

Born 1944

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0537 HISTORIAN

Gabriel Motzkin

Born 1945

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0541 WRITER

Hannah Bat Shahar

Born 1944

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0542 ECOLOGIST

Mordechai Halperin

Born 1946

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0545 COMPOSER

Elias Davidsson

Born 1941

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0548 CONDUCTOR

Selim Sahab

Born 1941

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0553 FILM

Elly Kenner

Born 1948

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0556 MUSIC

Abi Wallenstein

Born 1945

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0570 SCHOLAR

Yehuda Liebes

Born 1947

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0578 ACTOR

Ruth Herz

Born 1944

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0590 POET

Dan Armon

Born 1948

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0600 RABBI

Eliyahu Boruch Finkel

1947 - 2008

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0602 MINISTER

Zaki Nusseibeh

Born 1946

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0615 PIANIST

Natan Brand

1944 - 1990

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0619 POLITICIAN

Nabeel Kassis

Born 1945

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0620 SCHOLAR

Edna Brocke

Born 1943

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0626 ACTIVIST

Adina Bar-Shalom

Born 1945

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0629 EDUCATOR

Yitzchak Dovid Grossman

Born 1946

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0633 CONVICT

Rasmea Odeh

Born 1947

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0638 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Haim Hazan

Born 1947

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0642 DIPLOMAT

Princess Firyal

Born 1945

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0655 FOOTBALL

Shimon Charnuha

Born 1948

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0657 FLYING ACE

Amir Nachumi

Born 1945

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0658 ASTROPHYSICIST

Tsevi Mazeh

Born 1946

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0663 ATTORNEY

Michael Ben-Yair

Born 1942

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0669 ARCHITECT

Ruth Golan

1944 - 2012

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0670 RABBI

Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik

Born 1949

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0678 ACADEMIC

Mohammed Dajani Daoudi

Born 1946

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0683 POLITICIAN

Ya'akov Shamai

1940 - 2016

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0691 SINGER

Nizza Thobi

Born 1947

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0698 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Gaby Mazor

Born 1944

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0705 RABBI

Eliyahu Ben Haim

Born 1940

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0714 OFFICER

Yossi Ben Hanan

Born 1945

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0722 PAINTER

Rhea Carmi

Born 1942

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0726 BUSINESS

Joseph Neubauer

Born 1941

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0727 JUDGE

Dvora Berliner

Born 1947

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0743 PROFESSOR

Raanan Gillon

Born 1941

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0751 PRIEST

Pierre Madros

Born 1949

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0755 MINISTERI

Dorit Shavit

Born 1949

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0768 WRITER

Yizhak Ahren

Born 1946

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0770 PHYSICIAN

Hisham Maizar

1942 - 2015

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0777 MINISTER

Nechemya Cohen

1943 - 1967

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0779 DIPLOMAT

David Peleg

1942 - 2013

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0780 RABBI

Moshe Havlin

Born 1948

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0786 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Naama Goren-Inbar

Born 1948

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0792 BUSINESS

Joseph Nakash

Born 1942

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0795 COMPOSER

Yossi Mar-Chaim

Born 1940

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0801 BASKET

Amnon Weiss

Born 1943

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0803 ACADEMIC

David Shinar

Born 1943

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0805 DIPLOMAT

Gideon Meir

Born 1947

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0808 PAINTER

Khairat Al-Saleh

Born 1940

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0813 JOURNALIST

Naomi Gal

Born 1944

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0822 ENTREPRENEUR

Stav Prodromou

Born 1944

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0824 ENGINEER

John Bandler

Born 1941

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0830 POLITICIAN

Avraham Leizerson

1943 - 2020

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0832 WRITER

Mahmud Schahin

Born 1947

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0838 PRODUCER

Henry Hadaway

Born 1942

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0847 BUSINESS

Charles Dayan (real estate developer)

Born 1941

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0850 ACTIVIST

Haya Shalom

Born 1944

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0855 FOOTBALL

Gadi Zelniker

1944 - 2016

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0862 PHYSICIST

Amnon Aharony

Born 1943

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0865 RABBI

Elazar Mordechai Koenig

1945 - 2018

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0877 ARTIST

Sari Ibrahim Khoury

1941 - 1997

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0881 DIPLOMAT

Ehud Gol

Born 1946

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0890 CARTOONIST

Baha Boukhari

1944 - 2015

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0891 CHEMIST

Shmaryahu Hoz

Born 1945

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0892 BIOCHEMIST

Yosef Gruenbaum

Born 1949

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0900 PROFESSOR

Ahmed Khalidi

Born 1945

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0902 POLITICIAN

Lamis al-Alami

Born 1943

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0913 MUFTI

Sa’id Hijjawi

Born 1945

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0915 DIPLOMAT

Eliahu López

Born 1946

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