1828 - 1916. Haim Nissim Amzlag was a Jewish businessman and community leader during the Yishuv period. He was born in Gibraltar to a...

1858 - 1922. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, originally named Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, was a Russian linguist, grammarian, and journalist who played...

1855 - 1914. David Wolffsohn was a Lithuanian-Jewish businessman, an early Zionist, and the second president of the Zionist Organization....

1830 - 1892. Born in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire , Judah Leib Gordon was among the most influential Hebrew poets. He is...

1859 - 1922. David Frischman was an influential figure in the literary world, as a writer, poet, and translator who wrote in Hebrew and...

1856 - 1940. Born in Belarus to a Chabad Hasidic family, Zalman David Levontin was one of the pioneers of the first aliyah. He was one of...

1863 - 1941. Menachem Ussishkin was a Zionist leader born in Belarus. Starting in 1878, he developed a passion for reading contemporary...

1860 - 1904. Benjamin Zeev Theodor Herzl was the founder of Political Zionism and founder of the Zionist Organization. He was born to a...

1821 - 1891. Leon Pinsker, born in Poland in 1839, was a prominent 19th-century Jewish leader, Zionist pioneer, physician, and writer. He...

1784 - 1862. Judith Montefiore (born Cohen) was a British linguist, musician, travel writer, philanthropist, and wife of Moshe...

Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah ("The Hope"), expresses the Jewish people's longing to return to Israel, the land of their...