- male
- Samuel or Shmu'el is an important leader of ancient Israel in the Book(s) of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. His status, as viewed by rabbinical...
- female
- Deborah or Dvora was a prophetess and the fourth Judge and only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the Old Testament (Tanakh). Her story is...
- male
- Gershon Galil is the senior lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern history and chairman of the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa,...
- male, deceased (1867)
- Abraham Mapu was a Lithuanian-born Hebrew novelist. For many years he was an impoverished, itinerant schoolmaster. Mapu gained financial security...
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