4 minPoliticsGolda Meir1898 - 1978. Golda Meir was an Israeli politician, and Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. Born in Kyiev, her early years were...
4 minPoliticsLevi Eshkol1895 - 1969. Levi Eshkol was an Israeli politician and the third Prime Minister of the State of Israel, between 1963 and 1969. You can...
3 minHistoryAbraham Isaac Kook1865 - 1935. Abraham Isaac Kook, known as Rav Kook, was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel (in...
3 minArt & LitteratureEliezer Ben-Yehuda1858 - 1922. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, originally named Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, was a Russian linguist, grammarian, and journalist who played...
2 minHistoryDavid Wolffsohn1855 - 1914. David Wolffsohn was a Lithuanian-Jewish businessman, an early Zionist, and the second president of the Zionist Organization....
2 minHistoryZalman David Levontin1856 - 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...
2 minHistoryMenachem Ussishkin1863 - 1941. Menachem Ussishkin was a Zionist leader born in Belarus. Starting in 1878, he developed a passion for reading contemporary...
6 minHistoryZe'ev Jabotinsky1880 - 1940. Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Zionist leader, writer, orator, soldier, and journalist. He strongly advocated for the creation of a...
1 minHistoryJudith Montefiore1784 - 1862. Judith Montefiore (born Cohen) was a British linguist, musician, travel writer, philanthropist, and wife of Moshe...
2 minArt & LitteratureSiona Tagger1900 - 1988. Ziona Tager was an Israeli painter known for painting the Yishuv period and the country's first years. She was born in Jaffa...
2 minHistoryMoshe Montefiore1784 - 1885. Moshe Montefiore, an English Sephardic Jew born in Italy, was a financier, banker, Zionist activist, and philanthropist. He...