People on Israel-and-palestine's street signs

Theodor Herzl

17 Theodor Herzl was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine, which,...

Menachem Begin

14 Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician who founded Herut and Likud and served as prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983.

David Ben-Gurion

13 David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he was...

Rothschild family

11 The Rothschild family is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt, Germany. The family's documented history starts in 16th-century Frankfurt; its name is derived from...

Simon bar Kokhba

10 Simon bar Kokhba or Simon bar Koseba, commonly referred to simply as Bar Kokhba, was a Jewish military leader in Judea. He lent his name to the Bar Kokhba revolt, which he initiated against the Roman...

Hayim Nahman Bialik

9 Hayim Nahman Bialik was a Russian-Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew and Yiddish. Bialik is considered a pioneer of modern Hebrew poetry, part of the vanguard of Jewish thinkers who gave voice...

Haim Arlosoroff

9 Haim Arlosoroff was a Socialist Zionist leader of the Yishuv during the British Mandate for Palestine before the establishment of Israel, and head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency. In...

Henrietta Szold

8 Henrietta Szold was an American-born Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandatory Palestine...

Hasmonean dynasty

8 The Hasmonean dynasty was the Jewish ruling dynasty of Judea during the Hellenistic times of the Second Temple period, from c. 141 BC to 37 BC. Between c. 141 and c. 116 BC the dynasty ruled Judea...

Moshe Dayan

8 Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during...

Yitzhak Sadeh

8 Yitzhak Sadeh, was the commander of the Palmach and one of the founders of the Israel Defense Forces at the time of the establishment of the State of Israel.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

7 Ze'ev Jabotinsky was an author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

7 Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was a Russian–Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it. He is renowned as the lexicographer of the first...

David Ben-Gurion

7 David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he was...

Judah Halevi

7 Judah haLevi was a Sephardic Jewish poet, physician and philosopher. HaLevi is considered one of the greatest Hebrew-language poets and is celebrated for his secular and religious poems, many of...

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

7 Ze'ev Jabotinsky was an author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa.

Hannah Szenes

7 Hannah Szenes was a Jewish, Hungarian-born poet, playwright, and resistance operative trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). In 1944, she was one of 37 Jewish volunteers from...

Yitzhak Rabin

7 Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli statesman and general who was the prime minister of Israel, having served two terms in office, 1974–1977, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. He was the first...

Golda Meir

7 Golda Meir was the prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and, to date, only female head of government.

Abraham Isaac Kook

6 Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook, known as HaRav Kook, and also known by the Hebrew-language acronym Hara'ayah (הראי״ה), was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory...

Solomon ibn Gabirol

6 Solomon ibn Gabirol or Solomon ben Judah was an 11th-century Jewish poet and philosopher in the neoplatonic tradition in Al-Andalus. He published over a hundred poems, as well as works of Hebrew...

Chaim Weizmann

6 Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Russian-born Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was...

David

6 David was, originally, leader of the Tribe of Judah who became the first king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.

Eliyahu Golomb

6 Eliyahu Golomb, also referred to as Eliyahu Ben-Naftali, was the "unofficial founder" of the Haganah, and one of the architects of the Jewish defense organizations in Palestine during the British...

Arthur Balfour

6 Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the Lloyd...

Ahad Ha'am

6 Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg, primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am, was a Hebrew journalist and essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the...

Rehavam Ze'evi

6 Rehavam Ze'evi was an Israeli general and politician who founded the far-right nationalist Moledet party. He mainly advocated for complete cleansing of the Palestinian population through population...

David Elazar

6 David "Dado" Elazar was an Israeli senior military officer who was the ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), serving in that capacity from 1972 to 1974. He was forced to resign in...

Solomon

6 Solomon, also called Jedidiah, was a king of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible. The successor of his father David, he is described as the penultimate ruler of all Twelve...

David Remez

6 David Remez was an Israeli politician, the country's first Minister of Transportation, and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence.

Yitzhak Shamir

6 Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist...

Nahum Sokolow

5 Nahum ben Joseph Samuel Sokolow was a Jewish-Polish writer, translator, and journalist, the fifth President of the World Zionist Organization, editor of Ha-Tsfira, researcher, Zionist leader and...

Aryeh Ben-Eliezer

5 Aryeh Ben-Eliezer was a Revisionist Zionist leader, Irgun member and Israeli politician. He was acting leader of Herut from August 1951, after Menachem Begin resigned as a result of the 1951 Israeli...

Levi Eshkol

5 Levi Eshkol, born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik, was the prime minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. A founder of the Israeli Labor Party, he served in numerous senior...

Yehoshua Hankin

5 Yehoshua Hankin was a Zionist activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the Zionist Organization in Ottoman Palestine and Mandatory Palestine – in particular for the...

Yosef Haim Brenner

5 Yosef Haim Brenner was a Russian-born Hebrew-language author and public intellectual, and one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. His writings, public engagement, and murder during the 1921...

Saul

5 Saul was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, the first king of the United Monarchy, a polity of uncertain historicity. His reign, traditionally...

Eliezer Kaplan

5 Eliezer Kaplan was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence and the country's first Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister.

Maimonides

5 Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam, was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi who is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and influential...

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

5 Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, also known as Isaac Herzog or Hertzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1936 until his death in 1959, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi...

Isaac Abarbanel

5 Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel, commonly referred to as Abarbanel, was a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier.

Ber Borochov

5 Dov Ber Borochov was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement. He was also a pioneer in the study of the Yiddish language. His worldview was highly influenced by...

Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor

4 Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor or Isaac Elhanan Spector was a Russian rabbi, posek and Talmudist of the 19th century.

Samuel Mohilever

4 Samuel Mohilever, also Shmuel Mohilever, was a rabbi, pioneer of Religious Zionism and one of the founders of the Hovevei Zion movement.

Rashi

4 Shlomo Yitzchaki, commonly known by the Rabbinic acronym Rashi (רש"י), was a French rabbi and commentator who authored comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and Hebrew Bible.

Rabbi Akiva

4 Akiva ben Joseph, also known as Rabbi Akiva, was a leading Jewish scholar and sage and a tanna of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second. Rabbi Akiva was a leading...

Berl Katznelson

4 Berl Katznelson was one of the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism and was instrumental to the establishment of the modern state of Israel. He was also the editor of Davar, the first daily...

Albert Einstein

4 Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence...

Yigal Allon

4 Yigal Allon was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was a commander of the Palmach and a general in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). He was also a leader of the Ahdut HaAvoda and Israeli...

Moshe Sharett

4 Moshe Sharett was an Israeli politician who was Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1948 to 1956. He signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence and was...

Menachem Ussishkin

4 Menachem Ussishkin was a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund.         

Salman al-Ouda

4 Salman bin Fahd bin Abdullah al-Ouda or Salman al-Ouda, known by his kunya as Abu Mu'ad is a Saudi Islamic scholar. Al-Ouda is a member of the International Union for Muslim Scholars and on its board...

Leon Pinsker

4 Leon Pinsker or Judah Leib Pinsker was a physician and Zionist activist.                           

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

4 Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, also known by the Hebrew acronym RaMCHaL or RaMḤaL (רמח״ל), was a rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher in Italy

Yosef Sprinzak

4 Yosef Sprinzak was a leading Zionist activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first Speaker of the Knesset, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

4 Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952...

Judah ha-Nasi

4 Judah ha-Nasi or Judah I, known simply as Rebbi or Rabbi, was a second-century rabbi and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah. He lived from approximately 135 to 217 CE. He was a key leader of...

David-Zvi Pinkas

4 David-Zvi Pinkas was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician. A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, he was the country's third Minister of Transport.

Yehoshua Hankin

4 Yehoshua Hankin was a Zionist activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the Zionist Organization in Ottoman Palestine and Mandatory Palestine – in particular for the...