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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Danny Neuman
Born 1955
Zaki Nusseibeh
Born 1946
Ezri Tarazi
Born 1962
Avraham Elmalih
1885 - 1967
Erez Katz
Born 1980
Oded Balilty
Born 1979
Itzik Kala
Born 1953
Yosef Shapira
1926 - 2013
Naftali Tishby
Born 1953
Orna Angel
Born 1962
Yousef al-Khalidi
1829 - 1907
Binyamin Shahor
1916 - 1979
Dudu Dahan
Born 1971
Oren Schmuckler
Born 1954
Natan Brand
1944 - 1990
Raz Mesinai
Born 1973
Omer Arbel
Born 1976
Ruth Rasnic
Born 1932
Nabeel Kassis
Born 1945
Edna Brocke
Born 1943
Mickey Levy
Born 1951
Anat Biletzki
Born 1952
Eli Beer
Born 1973
Vidi Bilu
Born 1959
Nurit Koren
Born 1960
Adina Bar-Shalom
Born 1945
Bassam Zuamut
1951 - 2004
Moshe Onana
Born 1950
Yitzchak Dovid Grossman
Born 1946
Nazik Saba Yared
Born 1928
Shmuel Barzilai
Born 1957
Ilan Baruch
Born 1974
Rasmea Odeh
Born 1947
David Adika
Born 1970
Ammiel Bushakevitz
Born 1986
Hen Azriel
Born 1988
Anat Hoffman
Born 1954
Haim Hazan
Born 1947
Najib Albina
1901 - 1983
Zvi Yehezkeli
Born 1970
Salomón Cohen Levy
1927 - 2018
Princess Firyal
Born 1945
William A. Smalley
1923 - 1997
Ludwig Schneller
1858 - 1953
Zeev Gourarier
Born 1953
Jehuda Mualam
1921 - 2010
Uri Peso
Born 1987
Kalman Mann
1912 - 1997
Elan Journo
Born 1976
Ra'anan Levy
Born 1954
Dafna Kaffeman
Born 1972
Ismail Khalidi
1916 - 1968
Eli Izhakoff
-
Yuval Elizur
Born 1927
Shimon Charnuha
Born 1948
P. J. Vatikiotis
1928 - 1997
Amir Nachumi
Born 1945
Tsevi Mazeh
Born 1946
Yehuda Green
Born 1959
Yoav Meiri
Born 1975
Yosef Navon
1858 - 1934
Al-Tamimi, the physician
Died 990
Michael Ben-Yair
Born 1942
Hussam ad-Din Jarallah
1884 - 1954
Roni Alsheikh
Born 1963
Herzi Halevi
Born 1967
Nisim Elmaliah
1928 - 1989
Ayala Zacks-Abramov
1912 - 2011
Ruth Golan
1944 - 2012
Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik
Born 1949
Michal Har'el
1931 - 2012
Heinrich Lange (Physiker)
1893 - 1973
Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (Mir Jerusalem rosh yeshiva)
Born 1965
Einat Amir
Born 1979
Emil Ghuri
1907 - 1984
Itamar Ben-Gvir
Born 1976
Yitzhak Kovo
1770 - 1854
Mohammed Dajani Daoudi
Born 1946
Nadav Shragai
Born 1959
Yakir Gabay
Born 1966
Manoug Manougian
Born 1936
Adi Bitar
1924 - 1973
Ya'akov Shamai
1940 - 2016
Samir Ghawshah
1937 - 2009
Alon Nisim Cohen
Born 1968
Uri Rosenwaks
Born 1965
Yuval Lapide
Born 1961
Gideon Tomaschoff
Born 1956
Asher Swissa
Born 1975
Mattathias ben Theophilus
Died 66
Nizza Thobi
Born 1947
Bassem Awadallah
Born 1964
Daniel Zohary
1926 - 2016
Jowan Qupty
Born 1990
Kotel Da-Don
Born 1967
Zion Merili
Born 1957
Nily Rozic
Born 1986
Gaby Mazor
Born 1944
Shimon Levinson
Born 1933
Efrat Shvily
Born 1955
Géula Dagan
1925 - 2008
Shlomo Lewin
1911 - 1980
Shalom Cohen (rabbi)
Born 1931
Anat Elimelech
1974 - 1997
Eliyahu Ben Haim
Born 1940
Aharon Mordechai Rokeach
Born 1975
Ariel Weinstein
1932 - 1996
Nachum Erlich
Born 1959
Eyal Gabbai
Born 1967
Mickey Edelstein
Born 1967
Yehuda Perah
1924 - 1998
Hannah Gavron
1936 - 1965
Avraham-Haim Shag
1887 - 1958
Yossi Ben Hanan
Born 1945
Hierotheos of Antioch
1800 - 1885
Karin Shifrin
Born 1979
Roy Nachum
Born 1979
Ariel Absalón
1923 - 2006
Ran Poliakine
Born 1967
David Volach
Born 1970
Lily Serna
Born 1986
Rhea Carmi
Born 1942
Gad Avigad
Born 1930
Baruch Ben Haim
1921 - 2005
Danae Elon
Born 1970
Joseph Neubauer
Born 1941
Dvora Berliner
Born 1947
Matanya Ophee
1932 - 2017
Muhammed Muheisen
Born 1981
Doris (épouse d'Hérode)
-
Michael Malchieli
Born 1982
Mattanya Cohen
Born 1965
Mordechai Kahana
Born 1968
Miriam Hadar Weingarten
Born 1935
Joachim Wenning
Born 1965
Shimshon Rozen
1952 - 2011
Theodor Schneller
1856 - 1935
Eran Groumi
Born 1970
Eli Hurvitz (Meridor)
Born 1970
Yossi Gal
Born 1950
Tal Balshai
Born 1969
Nahum Sarig
1914 - 1999
Raanan Gillon
Born 1941
Mohiyedine Sharif
1966 - 1998
Rafael Harpaz
Born 1962
Raphael Perez
Born 1965
Emmanuel Shaked
1930 - 2018
Yitzchok Ezrachi
Born 1934
Jonas Quastel
-
Menahem Blondheim
Born 1954
Pierre Madros
Born 1949
Amotz Asa-El
-
George Carnegie-Brown
1906 - 1964
Morris S. Seale
1896 - 1993
Dorit Shavit
Born 1949
Orna Ostfeld
Born 1952
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Born 1958
Oren Rosenfeld
Born 1976
Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain
1934 - 1969
Avi Blut
Born 1974
Benjamin Lazier
Born 1971
Yizhar Hess
Born 1967
Evyatar Baruchyan
Born 1989
Moshe Yosef Mordechai Meyuchas
1738 - 1805
Mohammed Tahir al-Husayni
1842 - 1908
Moshe Zar
Born 1938
Eden Nachmani
Born 1990
Yizhak Ahren
Born 1946
Ayelet Cohen
Born 1985
Hisham Maizar
1942 - 2015
Emmanuel David Tannenbaum
1978 - 2012
Joseph Almosnino
1642 - 1689
Tamar de Sola Pool
1890 - 1981
Naomi Tereza Salmon
Born 1965
Jehiel R. Elyachar
1898 - 1989
Mordechai Lavi
Born 1978
Nechemya Cohen
1943 - 1967
Michele Dayan
Born 1961
David Peleg
1942 - 2013
Moshe Havlin
Born 1948
Daniel Kühnel
Born 1973
Munther Dajani Daoudi
Born 1951
Abu Maher Ghneim
Born 1937
Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht
1924 - 1994
Hillel Weinberg
Born 1961
Naama Goren-Inbar
Born 1948
Siman-Tov Ganeh
1924 - 1968
Raffaele Canger
1938 - 2019
Ehud Ettun
Born 1987
Hanna Herzog
-
Jerry Kevorkian
Born 1933
Joseph Nakash
Born 1942
Schulamit König
Born 1930
Ram Caspi
Born 1939
Yossi Mar-Chaim
Born 1940
David Kaminsky
Born 1938
Amitai Ziv
Born 1958
Stav Shushan
Born 1995
Eliezer Igra
Born 1954
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
Born 1979
Amnon Weiss
Born 1943
Yechiel Fishel Eisenbach
1925 - 2008
David Shinar
Born 1943
Shimon Elituv
Born 1937
Gideon Meir
Born 1947
Frank Evers (CEO)
Born 1965
Menachem Cohen (politician)
1922 - 1975
Khairat Al-Saleh
Born 1940
Dov Ben-Dov
1927 - 2020
Sruli Recht
Born 1979
Shmuel Bornsztain (sixth Sochatchover rebbe)
Born 1961
Yuval Gabay
Born 1963
Naomi Gal
Born 1944
Daniel Gross (software entrepreneur)
Born 1991
Assaf Shaham
Born 1983
Elad Hasin
Born 1980
Manuel Hassassian
Born 1953
Imil Jarjoui
Died 2007
Yaakov Blau
1929 - 2013
Edit Doron
1951 - 2019
Saad al-Alami
1911 - 1993
Stav Prodromou
Born 1944
Dan Meyerstein
Born 1938
John Bandler
Born 1941
Arie Zeev Raskin
Born 1976
Ya'akov Frank
1913 - 1993
Rachel Schmidt (Violinistin)
Born 1975
Barak Moshe
Born 1991
Assaf Azo
Born 1984
Avraham Leizerson
1943 - 2020
Tarik Freitekh
Born 1987
Mahmud Schahin
Born 1947
Yoav Horesh
Born 1975
Jossi Kaufmann
1936 - 2017
Liliane Lurçat
Died 2019
Allen Bartholomew
1925 - 2004
Amram Zaks
1926 - 2012
Henry Hadaway
Born 1942
Anita Erskine
Born 1978
Ramzi Maqdisi
Born 1980
Judah Gavra
Born 1984
Lilly Rivlin
-
Ulrich Bienzle
1939 - 2008
Ya'akov Gil (politician born 1931)
1931 - 2007
Ofir Amram
Born 1986
Adam Mizrahi
Born 1985
Charles Dayan (real estate developer)
Born 1941
David Rose (real estate developer)
1892 - 1986
Ami Dar
Born 1961
Haya Shalom
Born 1944
Sholom Rivkin
1926 - 2011
Zohar Fraiman
Born 1978
Wilhelm Gohl
1896 - 1958
Ghanem Nuseibeh
Born 1977
Gadi Zelniker
1944 - 2016
Baruch Barzel
Born 1976
Walid Muhammed Sadi
Born 1939
Einat Ramon
Born 1959
Samuel Lavan
Born 1982
Omer Nachmani
Born 1993
Zalman I. Posner
1927 - 2014
Amnon Aharony
Born 1943
Amin Yunis al Husseini
1929 - 2016
Rafi Cohen (football manager)
Born 1965
Elazar Mordechai Koenig
1945 - 2018
Yoni Kretzmer
Born 1982
Orit Nahmias
Born 1977
Yitzhak Israeli
-
Avishay Cohen
Born 1995
Aida Bamia
-
Eliezer E. Goldschmidt
Born 1938
Sam Philipe
-
Walid Muaqqat
Born 1953
Miriam Kara
Born 1938
Hannah Cotton
-
Yuval Shahar
Born 1958
Sari Ibrahim Khoury
1941 - 1997
Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir
-
Mazen Sinokrot
Born 1954
Mor Harchol-Balter
-
Ehud Gol
Born 1946
Amnon Albeck
Born 1958
Abshalom Jac Lahav
Born 1977
Moshe Silberhaft
Born 1967
Shay Aharon
Born 1978
Vered Slonim-Nevo
Born 1953
Ohad Saidof
Born 1987
Alfredo D'Arbela
1898 - 1977
Shlomo Bistritzky
Born 1977
Baha Boukhari
1944 - 2015
Shmaryahu Hoz
Born 1945
Yosef Gruenbaum
Born 1949
Ronald Shiffman
-
Elchanan Mossel
-
San Talaleo
Died 284
Oday Dabbagh
Born 1998
Cy Leslie
1922 - 2008
Yuval Golan
Born 1962
Brouria Feldman-Muhsam
Born 1916
Ahmed Khalidi
Born 1945