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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Sirhan Sirhan
Born 1944
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
1947 - 2011
Saharon Shelah
Born 1945
Tom Segev
Born 1945
Makram Khoury
Born 1945
Dan Meridor
Born 1947
Uri Davis
Born 1943
Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Born 1949
Ron Ben-Yishai
Born 1943
Ruth Gavison
1945 - 2020
Benny Begin
Born 1943
Amos Kollek
Born 1947
Nurit Zarchi
Born 1941
Gabriel Gorodetsky
Born 1945
Yoav Gelber
Born 1943
Miklós Haraszti
Born 1945
Adèle Geras
Born 1944
Shlomo Havlin
Born 1942
Moshe Zimmermann
Born 1943
Itamar Rabinovich
Born 1942
Dudu Gerstein
Born 1944
Iftach Spector
Born 1940
Bassam Abu Sharif
Born 1946
Rachel Elior
Born 1949
Matan Vilnai
Born 1944
Amnon Dankner
1946 - 2013
Asa Kasher
Born 1940
Naomi Chazan
Born 1946
Uri Segal
Born 1944
Alexander Levitzki
Born 1940
Yair Auron
Born 1945
Ze'ev Boim
1943 - 2011
Haim Be'er
Born 1945
Shimon Ullman
Born 1948
Miriam Naor
Born 1947
Joel Moses
Born 1941
Menachem Zilberman
1946 - 2014
Haim Harari
Born 1940
Dan Wolman
Born 1941
Ya'akov Yosef
1946 - 2013
Eli Cohen (politician born 1949)
Born 1949
Dan Alon
1945 - 2018
Avner Falk
Born 1943
Yisrael Poliakov
1941 - 2007
Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin
Born 1941
Tsvi Misinai
Born 1946
Roni Shuruk
Born 1946
Tzvia Greenfeld
Born 1945
Shalom Dov Wolpo
Born 1948
Edna Arbel
Born 1944
Hanania Baer
Born 1943
Michael Druks
Born 1940
Ibrahim Souss
Born 1945
Nurith Gertz
Born 1940
Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron
1941 - 2020
Yechiel Hameiri
Born 1949
Chaïm Nissim
1949 - 2017
Eli Noam
Born 1946
Michael Sgan-Cohen
1944 - 1999
Adam Baruch
1945 - 2008
Yair Kless
Born 1940
David Zilberman (economist)
Born 1947
Rasem Badran
Born 1945
Dan Chamizer
Born 1947
Orna Berry
Born 1949
Zvi Ben-Avraham
Born 1941
Eliezer Shlomo Schick
1940 - 2015
Yitzchak Sheilat
Born 1946
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 2019
Esther Farbstein
Born 1946
Bob Sedergreen
Born 1943
Yosef Ahimeir
Born 1943
Yaron Tsur
Born 1948
Ze'ev Bielski
Born 1949
Israel Segal
1944 - 2007
Avraham Diskin
Born 1947
Eitan Ben Eliyahu
Born 1944
Eliezer Rivlin
Born 1942
Shimon Gershon Rosenberg
1949 - 2007
Dan Gillerman
Born 1944
Mubarak Awad
Born 1943
Raphie Etgar
Born 1947
Yoram Ben-Zeev
Born 1944
Gabriel Motzkin
Born 1945
Hannah Bat Shahar
Born 1944
Mordechai Halperin
Born 1946
Elias Davidsson
Born 1941
Selim Sahab
Born 1941
Elly Kenner
Born 1948
Abi Wallenstein
Born 1945
Yehuda Liebes
Born 1947
Ruth Herz
Born 1944
Dan Armon
Born 1948
Eliyahu Boruch Finkel
1947 - 2008
Zaki Nusseibeh
Born 1946
Natan Brand
1944 - 1990
Nabeel Kassis
Born 1945
Edna Brocke
Born 1943
Adina Bar-Shalom
Born 1945
Yitzchak Dovid Grossman
Born 1946
Rasmea Odeh
Born 1947
Haim Hazan
Born 1947
Princess Firyal
Born 1945
Shimon Charnuha
Born 1948
Amir Nachumi
Born 1945
Tsevi Mazeh
Born 1946
Michael Ben-Yair
Born 1942
Ruth Golan
1944 - 2012
Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik
Born 1949
Mohammed Dajani Daoudi
Born 1946
Ya'akov Shamai
1940 - 2016
Nizza Thobi
Born 1947
Gaby Mazor
Born 1944
Eliyahu Ben Haim
Born 1940
Yossi Ben Hanan
Born 1945
Rhea Carmi
Born 1942
Joseph Neubauer
Born 1941
Dvora Berliner
Born 1947
Raanan Gillon
Born 1941
Pierre Madros
Born 1949
Dorit Shavit
Born 1949
Yizhak Ahren
Born 1946
Hisham Maizar
1942 - 2015
Nechemya Cohen
1943 - 1967
David Peleg
1942 - 2013
Moshe Havlin
Born 1948
Naama Goren-Inbar
Born 1948
Joseph Nakash
Born 1942
Yossi Mar-Chaim
Born 1940
Amnon Weiss
Born 1943
David Shinar
Born 1943
Gideon Meir
Born 1947
Khairat Al-Saleh
Born 1940
Naomi Gal
Born 1944
Stav Prodromou
Born 1944
John Bandler
Born 1941
Avraham Leizerson
1943 - 2020
Mahmud Schahin
Born 1947
Henry Hadaway
Born 1942
Charles Dayan (real estate developer)
Born 1941
Haya Shalom
Born 1944
Gadi Zelniker
1944 - 2016
Amnon Aharony
Born 1943
Elazar Mordechai Koenig
1945 - 2018
Sari Ibrahim Khoury
1941 - 1997
Ehud Gol
Born 1946
Baha Boukhari
1944 - 2015
Shmaryahu Hoz
Born 1945
Yosef Gruenbaum
Born 1949
Ahmed Khalidi
Born 1945
Lamis al-Alami
Born 1943
Sa’id Hijjawi
Born 1945
Eliahu López
Born 1946