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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Renen Schorr
Born 1952
Uzzi Ornan
Born 1923
Moshe Nissim
Born 1935
Ya'akov Meshorer
1935 - 2004
Chaim Hezekiah Medini
1832 - 1904
Ibrahim Souss
Born 1945
Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach
1886 - 1954
Yousef Beidas
1912 - 1968
Hind al-Husseini
1916 - 1994
Nurith Gertz
Born 1940
Bracha Tzfira
1910 - 1990
Oded Lipschits
Born 1963
Anwar Nusseibeh
1913 - 1986
Yosef Rivlin
1838 - 1897
Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron
1941 - 2020
Yechiel Hameiri
Born 1949
Chaïm Nissim
1949 - 2017
Rachel Azaria
Born 1977
Elisha Levy
Born 1957
Michael Sfard
Born 1972
Eli Noam
Born 1946
Michael Sgan-Cohen
1944 - 1999
Avner Shalev
Born 1939
Rivka Michaeli
Born 1938
Ahaziah of Judah
Died -842
Menelik I
-
Israel Eliraz
1936 - 2016
Mossi Raz
Born 1965
Asher Fisch
Born 1958
Asher Mizrahi
1890 - 1967
Amnon Wolman
Born 1955
Yehuda Tzadka
1910 - 1991
Haim Corfu
1921 - 2015
Gad Horowitz
Born 1936
Ibn Tahir of Caesarea
1056 - 1113
Yehoshua Matza
Born 1931
Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or
Born 1989
Yaakov Meir
1856 - 1939
Hazem Nuseibeh
Born 1922
Adam Baruch
1945 - 2008
Ran Raz
Born 1966
Yair Kless
Born 1940
Rafi Menco
Born 1994
Godfrey Quigley
1923 - 1994
Amram Blau
1894 - 1974
Samir Shihabi
1925 - 2010
Arieh Ben-Naim
Born 1934
Haim Bouzaglo
Born 1952
David Zilberman (economist)
Born 1947
Mordechai Elon
Born 1959
Eliyahu Elyashar
1899 - 1981
Elisha Abas
Born 1971
Victoria Hanna
-
Eddy Zemach
Born 1935
Asher Kravitz
Born 1969
Faris Glubb
1939 - 2004
Anat Zuria
Born 1961
Rasem Badran
Born 1945
Nissim Amon
Born 1963
Mounir Chafiq
Born 1936
Steve Sabella
Born 1975
Daniel Lidar
Born 1968
Hofesh Shechter
Born 1975
Yoav Kutner
Born 1954
Uri Savir
Born 1953
Menahem E. Yaari
Born 1935
David Stav
Born 1960
Einat Arif-Galanti
Born 1975
Yaakov Shaul Elyashar
1817 - 1906
Michal Aviad
Born 1955
Hila Plitmann
Born 1973
Dan Chamizer
Born 1947
Yehuda Saado
Born 1983
Ezra Nawi
Born 1952
Abba Saul
-
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Born 1969
Eli Hurvitz
1932 - 2011
Orna Berry
Born 1949
Yonit Levi
Born 1977
Yosef Ba-Gad
Born 1932
Henry Cattan
1906 - 1992
Oded Burla
1915 - 2009
Yaakov Ades
1898 - 1963
Yossi Madmoni
Born 1967
Meir Nakar
1926 - 1947
Procopius of Scythopolis
Died 303
Eli Schwartz
Born 1950
Micha Perles
Born 1936
Shmil Ben Ari
Born 1952
Gil Shwed
Born 1968
Ido Nehoshtan
Born 1957
Yisrael Galil
1923 - 1995
Raphael Maklouf
Born 1937
Ruchama Marton
Born 1937
Zvi Ben-Avraham
Born 1941
Toni Qattan
Born 1985
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2016
Anat Kamm–Uri Blau affair
Born 1987
Oreet Ashery
Born 1966
Uriel Lynn
Born 1935
Ofer Berkovitch
Born 1983
Pinchas Hacohen Peli
1930 - 1989
Zahara Schatz
1916 - 1999
Eliezer Goldberg
Born 1931
Sivan Klein
Born 1984
Tigranes V of Armenia
-16 - 36
Yehonatan Indursky
Born 1984
Eliezer Shlomo Schick
1940 - 2015
Yitzchak Sheilat
Born 1946
Shalom Turgeman
Born 1970
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 2019
Meir Yitzhak Halevi
Born 1953
Efi Arazi
1937 - 2013
Emile Touma
1919 - 1985
Dana Olmert
Born 1972
Tamar Eisenman
Born 1980
Hili Yalon
Born 1985
Yaaqov Medan
Born 1950
Yitzhak Aharonovich
Born 1950
Yehezkel Flomin
1935 - 2019
Yosi Piamenta
1951 - 2015
Yael Hedaya
Born 1964
Eliezer Schweid
Born 1929
Meshulam Nahari
Born 1951
Danny Rozin
Born 1961
Dani Gal
Born 1975
Jose Mugrabi
Born 1939
Hayim David HaLevi
1924 - 1998
Esther Farbstein
Born 1946
Jamal al-Husayni
1893 - 1982
Pinchas David Horowitz
1876 - 1941
Mosh Kashi
Born 1966
Meir Shmuel Gabay
1933 - 2010
Yahya Hammuda
1908 - 2006
Bob Sedergreen
Born 1943
Rafi Peretz
Born 1956
Kamil al-Husayni
1867 - 1921
Avi Nir
Born 1961
Sallai Meridor
Born 1955
Yosef Ahimeir
Born 1943
Maya Eshet
Born 1990
Taim Hasan
Born 1976
Meir Avizohar
1923 - 2008
Ori Pfeffer
Born 1975
Yaron Tsur
Born 1948
Yael Rom
1932 - 2006
Joseph Ginat
1936 - 2009
Aderet (singer)
Born 1976
Abraham Frumkin
1872 - 1946
Micah Lewensohn
1952 - 2017
Ja'afar Tuqan
1938 - 2014
Rabbi Bana'ah
-
Ze'ev Bielski
Born 1949
Doron Shefa
Born 1961
Guy Starik
Born 1965
Shlomo Helbrans
1962 - 2017
Boaz Evron
1927 - 2018
Yuval Naimy
Born 1985
Elazar Granot
1927 - 2013
Israel Segal
1944 - 2007
Haim Hanegbi
1933 - 2018
Emuna Elon
Born 1955
Amos Hakham
1921 - 2012
Boaz Huss
Born 1959
Dudi Amsalem
Born 1960
Avraham Diskin
Born 1947
Ron Shamir
Born 1953
Nahid al-Rayyis
1937 - 2010
Vania Heymann
Born 1986
Dan Roman (footballer, born 1982)
Born 1982
Yehuda Berg
-
Yaakov Moshe Charlap
1882 - 1951
Alexander Charles Ewald
1842 - 1891
Eitan Ben Eliyahu
Born 1944
Yaakov Shapira
Born 1950
Nahum Rakover
Born 1932
Zamir Cohen
Born 1965
Avner Halperin
Born 1968
Eliezer Rivlin
Born 1942
Danny Rubinstein
Born 1937
Nissim Ze'ev
Born 1951
Dror Green
Born 1954
Gannit Ankori
Born 1958
Shimon Gershon Rosenberg
1949 - 2007
Hussein al-Husayni
Died 1918
Dan Gillerman
Born 1944
Elad Peled
Born 1927
Amnon Marinov
1930 - 2011
David Coren
1917 - 2011
Adi Bielski
Born 1982
Mubarak Awad
Born 1943
Otniel Schneller
Born 1952
Admon (tanna)
-
Yaakov Meir Shechter
Born 1932
Ehud Havazelet
1955 - 2015
Yitshak Ehrenberg
Born 1950
Batsheva Kanievsky
1932 - 2011
Levi ben Japheth
900 - 950
Joel Moses Salomon
1838 - 1912
Alexander Rubowitz
1929 - 1947
Nir Yaniv
Born 1972
Avigdor Nebenzahl
Born 1935
Yishai Beer
Born 1956
Ayal Adler
Born 1968
Nitzan Chen
Born 1963
Yisroel Yaakov Fisher
1928 - 2003
Kamel El Basha
Born 1962
Amos Hoffman
Born 1970
Matan Barashi
Born 1988
Raphie Etgar
Born 1947
Adi Koll
Born 1976
Bezalel Narkiss
1926 - 2008
Shem Tob Gaguine
1884 - 1953
Raphi Cohen
Born 1975
Rachel Albeck-Gidron
Born 1960
Liron Cohen
Born 1982
Yoad Nevo
-
Efrat Ungar
1971 - 1996
Sara Smilansky
1922 - 2006
Ariel Schlesinger
Born 1980
Shlomi Edri
Born 1982
Orit Noked
Born 1952
Benzion Yadler
1871 - 1962
Binyamin Avniel
1906 - 1993
Timna Nelson-Levy
Born 1994
Tal Kachila
Born 1992
Esterina Tartman
Born 1957
Yoram Ben-Zeev
Born 1944
Zuhdi Labib Terzi
1924 - 2006
Shimon Lev
Born 1962
Asher Reich
Born 1937
Aref al-Dajani
1856 - 1930
Abraham Yakin
1924 - 2020
Noga Hareuveni
1924 - 2007
Dr. Dahesh
1909 - 1984
Kenny Young
1950 - 2020
Gabriel Motzkin
Born 1945
Yehuda Lapidot
Born 1928
Itzik Kornfein
Born 1971
Itzik Cohen (footballer, born 1990)
Born 1990
Hannah Bat Shahar
Born 1944
Mordechai Halperin
Born 1946
Peter Apselamus
Died 311
Zundel Kroizer
1924 - 2014
Elias Davidsson
Born 1941
Shmuel Auerbach
1931 - 2018
Re'em Ha'Cohen
Born 1957
Selim Sahab
Born 1941
Reuven Adiv
1930 - 2004
Avi Cohen (footballer, born 1962)
Born 1962
Moshe Efrati
1934 - 2020
Yasmeen Godder
Born 1973
Elly Kenner
Born 1948
Richard Douieb
Born 1956
Aaron Valero
1913 - 2000
Abi Wallenstein
Born 1945
Smadar Naoz
Born 1978
Eliezer Weishoff
Born 1938
Abba Saul ben Batnit
-
Yossi Mizrahi
Born 1953
Uri Kabiri
Born 1970
Tamar Ish-Shalom
Born 1981
Ran Morin
Born 1958
Yoav Mordechai
Born 1964
Prochorus (deacon)
-
Murad Alyan
Born 1977
Jonathan Bar Giora
Born 1962
Dalia Amotz
1938 - 1994
Jumana El Husseini
1932 - 2018
Yehuda Liebes
Born 1947
Miriam Gross
Born 1939
Sara Shilo
Born 1958
Shefi Yishai
Born 1954
Gavriel Cohen
Born 1928
Sahl ben Matzliah
910 - 990
Jamal Dajani
Born 1957
Gedaliah Aharon Koenig
1921 - 1980
Ruth Herz
Born 1944
Refael (Rafi) Benvenisti
Born 1937
Yitzhak Arieli
1896 - 1974
Oded Zehavi
Born 1961
Elchanan Meir
1936 - 2014
Gadi Shamni
Born 1959
Yosef Harish
1923 - 2013
Yehoshua Sagi
Born 1933
Amos Horev
Born 1924
Maher Abu Remeleh
Born 1983
Ilana Eliya
Born 1955
Hanna Siniora
Born 1937
Dan Armon
Born 1948
Irit Meir
1957 - 2018
Yoni (chanteur)
Born 1951
Shulamit Elizur
Born 1955
Adam Ariel
Born 1994
Ezriel Auerbach
Born 1938
Avshalom Caspi
Born 1960
Orit Strook
Born 1960
Shiri Artstein
Born 1978
Dor Guez
Born 1980
Eliyahu Boruch Finkel
1947 - 2008