Shmuel Dayan was a Zionist activist during the British Mandate of Palestine and an Israeli politician who served in the first three Knessets.
Aluf Dan Tolkowsky is a retired Israeli Air Force officer who served as a major general in the Israeli Air Force (IAF) from 1953 to 1958. A noted investor, he helped start the first Israeli venture capital fund.
Yeshayahu Press was a prominent researcher of the land of Israel and educator, who was born and lived most of his life in Jerusalem. He wrote the first volumes of the four-volume Topographical-Historical Encyclopedia of the Land of Israel (1947/48-1954/55). During Ottoman and then British rule in Palestine, Press served as the first Secretary of the (Jewish) Teachers' Union, helped establish the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, taught and worked as a school principal, served as President of the Bnei Brit Chamber and helped create a Bnei Brit fund for building houses, was among the founders of the Zichron Moshe neighbourhood in Jerusalem, and so forth. With the 1948 founding of the modern state of Israel, Press was among the driving force behind the establishment of the "Government Naming Committee" in 1949.
Avraham-Haim Shag was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Assembly of Representatives and the Knesset.
Siegfried Lehmann was an Israeli educator and founder and director of the Ben Shemen Youth Village.
Yitzhak Ben-Hezekiah Yosef Kovo (1770–1854) was born in the large Sephardi community of Ottoman Salonica and later settled in Jerusalem. In 1848, he succeeded Chaim Abraham Gagin as hacham bashi aged 78. Throughout his career he went on fundraising missions to Poland, London and Egypt. In 1854, he died while in Alexandria. He authored many works on the Mishnah, Talmud and Shulchan Aruch and wrote responsa.
Shlomo Morag, also spelled Shelomo Morag, was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Morag founded the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center at the Hebrew University and served as the head of Ben Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish communities in the East for several years. He was a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
Pinhas Kopel was the first commander of the Israel Border Police and the third inspector general of the Israel Police.
Bernard Friedberg was an Austrian Hebraist, scholar and bibliographer.
Adolf Böhm was a Bohemian-born Zionist historian and leader. He was murdered in the Nazi euthanasia programme at the Hartheim Euthanasia Centre in 1941.
Isaac Leib Goldberg was a Zionist leader and philanthropist in both Ottoman Palestine and the Russian Empire, and one of the principal founders of Rishon LeZion, the first Zionist settlement founded in the Land of Israel by the New Yishuv. An early member of the Hovevei Zion movement (1882), he also founded the Ohavei Zion society. Goldberg was a delegate to the First Zionist Congress and the founder of two Hebrew newspapers, Ha'aretz and Ha'am.
Shalom Streit (Hebrew: שלום שטרייט; June 5, 1888 – June 23, 1946) was a Hebrew-language educator, literary critic, and writer. Born in Galicia, he emigrated to Palestine and spent most of his life there, founding the moshav of Kfar Malal and a high school in Petah Tikva. He taught at the high school, published literary criticism, and hosted literary meetings. His daughter was Esther Streit-Wurzel, a major Israeli young-adult Hebrew novelist.
Avraham Cholodenko was a Zionist leader, educator, and one of the first revivers of Hebrew as a modern language in the Russian Empire. Cholodenko was a senior figure in the General Zionists liberal party and played a major role in the founding of Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue and Oneg Shabbat cultural center—together with his friend, the prominent poet and intellectual Hayim Nahman Bialik.
Avshalom Gissin was a Jewish officer in the Ottoman Army and a Zionist pioneer, who was killed during the 1921 Palestine riots while defending Petah Tikva.
Haim Harari (Hebrew: חיים הררי (שניאור זלמן בלומברג was one of the founders of Tel Aviv.
Arthur Menachem Hantke was a jurist, lawyer and economist, one of the leaders of Zionist movement in Germany and one of the leaders of the Zionist fundraising organization Keren Hayesod.
Ephraim Ben-Artzi (1910-2001) was an Israeli general and businessman.
Yeshurun Keshet, born Ya'akov Yehoshua Koplewitz, was an Israeli poet, essayist, translator and literary critic.
Yosef Yoel Rivlin was an Israeli Oriental studies scholar, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
Jacob Alyashar, was an 18th-century Talmudist and emissary (meshullaḥ).
