List of prime ministers of Israel by place of birth

This is a list of prime ministers of Israel by place of birth.

List by country

1. Russian Empire
   6 (40.0%)
2. British Mandate of Palestine (incl. OETA)
   5 (33.3%)
3. State of Israel
   3 (20.0%)
4. Republic of Poland
   1 (6.67%)

Israel (8)

Mandatory Palestine (4)

• Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995) — Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine ^{[1] [2]}
• Ariel Sharon (1928–2014) — Kfar Malal, Mandatory Palestine ^[3]
• Ehud Barak (born 1942) — Mishmar HaSharon, Mandatory Palestine ^[4]
• Ehud Olmert (born 1945) — Binyamina, Mandatory Palestine^{[ citation needed ]}

State of Israel (3)

• Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949) — Tel Aviv, State of Israel ^[5]
• Yair Lapid (born 1963) — Tel Aviv, State of Israel ^[6]
• Naftali Bennett (born 1972) — Haifa, State of Israel ^[7]

OETA (1)

• Yigal Allon ^[a] (1918–1980) — Kfar Tavor, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration ^[8]

Russian Empire (6)

• David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) — Płońsk, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire (present-day Poland) ^[9]
• Moshe Sharett (1894–1965) — Kherson, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) ^[10]
• Levi Eshkol (1895–1969) — Oratov, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Golda Meir (1898–1978) — Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) ^[11]
• Menachem Begin (1913–1992) — Brest, Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) ^[12]
• Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012) — Ruzhany, Białystok–Grodno District, German-occupied Russia (present-day Belarus) ^[13]

Republic of Poland (1)

• Shimon Peres (1923–2016) — Wiszniewo, Republic of Poland (present-day Belarus) ^{[14] [15]}

Map of birthplaces

Shimon Peres Yitzhak Shamir Menachem Begin Golda Meir Levi Eshkol Moshe Sharett David Ben-Gurion class=notpageimage| Birthplaces of prime ministers of Israel born abroad.

See also

• Prime Minister of Israel
• List of prime ministers of Israel

Notes

1. Served only as interim prime minister.

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