- Yitzhak Rabin
"'"', <font color="white">a</font>(March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords.
- Amira Hass
Amira Hass ; born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper "Ha'aretz". She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors (Bergen-Belsen), Hass was born in Jerusalem.
- Avraham Burg
Avraham Burg (nickname: Avrum, born January 19 1955) is an Israeli politician. Burg was born in Jerusalem and is the son of Yosef Shlomo Burg, a minister in several Israeli governments himself. He served in the Israel Defense Forces and graduated as a lieutenant in the paratroopers brigade. He then studied Social Sciences at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Burg was an activist in left wing organizations and the Peace Now movement.
- Munib Younan
Munib Younan is the Evangelical Lutheran Church Bishop of Palestine and Jordan since 1998. He was born in Jerusalem on September 18, 1950, and is married since 1980 to Suad Yacoub from Haifa, originally from Kfar Bir"im, (one of the depopulated villages of 1948.) They have three children. He has an MA in Theology from Helsinki University. He is President of the Board of Managers of the International Christian Committee (ICC) in Jerusalem.
- Amos Oz
Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939), birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Rehavam Ze'Evi
"'"', born 20 June 1926, died 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general, politician and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party. He was assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), becoming the only Israeli politician to be assassinated during the Al-Aqsa intifada.
- Dalia Itzik
Dalia Itzik (born 20 October 1952) is an Israeli politician, and currently holds the position of Knesset speaker. A member of the Kadima party, she was elected and took office as the first female speaker of the Knesset on May 4, 2006. Itzik was born in Jerusalem to a family of Iraqi origin. Before being elected to the 13th Knesset in 1992, she served as Jerusalem's deputy mayor. As a member of the Labour party, she served as Commerce, Environment and, most recently, …
- Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman, born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress.
- Adin Steinsaltz
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (Hebrew: עדין שטיינזלץ) or Adin Even Yisrael (born 1937) is most commonly known for his popular commentary and translation of both Talmuds into Hebrew, French, Russian and Spanish. In 1988, he was awarded the Israel Prize, Israel's highest honor. Steinsaltz is a noted scholar, philosopher, social critic and author world wide whose background also includes extensive scientific training.
- Mordechai Eliyahu
Mordechai Eliyahu (born: 1929, Jerusalem) is a former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel.
- Isaac Luria
Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Jewish mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in Safed: while his literary contribution to the Kabbalistic school of Safed was extremely minute (he only wrote a few poems), his fame led to the school and all its works being named after him. The main popularizer of his ideas was Hayim Vital, though Vital's claim to be the official interpreter of the Lurianic system was not undisputed.
- William Of Tyre
William of Tyre (c. 1130 - 1185) was archbishop of Tyre and a chronicler of the Crusades and the Middle Ages.
- Rachel Levy
Rachel Levy was killed at age 17 on March 29, 2002 when a teenage Palestinian female suicide bomber, wearing a belt of explosives around her waist, blew herself up at the entrance to a supermarket in Jerusalem's Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood on March 29, 2002.. The killings gained widespread international attention due to the suicide bomber's age and gender and the fact that one of the two Israeli dead was a girl of nearly identical age as the bomber.
- Sallai Meridor
Sallai Meridor (born 1955 in Jerusalem, Israel) is the current Israeli Ambassador to the United States. He was appointed to the position in 2006 by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Prior to this, Meridor served as the Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and the World Zionist Organization from 1999-2005, Treasurer of the Jewish Agency and WZO and as the Head of the Settlement Division of the WZO.
- Moshe Levinger
Rabbi Moshe Levinger (born 1935) is an Israeli Religious Zionist who since 1967 has been a leading figure in the movement to settle Jews in the territories captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. He is especially known for leading Jewish settlement in Hebron in 1968 and for being one of the principals of the settler movement Gush Emunim founded in 1974.
- Nathan Of Gaza
Nathan Benjamin ben Elisha ha-Levi Ghazzati or Nathan of Gaza (Hebrew: נתן עזתי) was a theologian, born in Jerusalem, who became famous as a prophet for the false messiah, Shabbetai Tzvi.
- Mohammad Amin Al-Husayni
Mohammad Amin al-Husayni was Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a Palestinian Arab nationalist and a Muslim religious leader. Known for his anti-Semitism and his opposition to Zionism, al-Husayni fought against the establishment of a Jewish Homeland in the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine. To this end, Husayni collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II and helped recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS.
- Yasmin Levy
Yasmin Levy (Jerusalem, 1975) is a singer of Sephardic music born in Jerusalem. Her father, Yitzhak Levy, was a pioneer researcher of the music of Spanish Jewry, often called Ladino music. She has brought a new interpretation to the international Ladino song scene by removing the folksified accompaniment of Spanish guitars and returning to original instruments like the Persian oud, violin, cello, percussion and piano.
- Michael Berg
Michael Berg was born June 29, 1973, in Jerusalem, Israel and is a teacher, author, and Co-Director of the Kabbalah Centre. He is the son of Rav and Karen Berg the current Deans of The Kabbalah Centre, and brother of fellow Kabbalah teacher Yehuda Berg. Michaels Rabbinical status was gained at Yeshiva Kineset Yechezgel however is most widely known as an author and teacher on the subject of Kabbalah.
- Avishai Cohen
Avishai Cohen (born 1970, in Jerusalem) is an Israeli jazz bassist, composer and arranger. He grew up in a musical family in a small town near Jerusalem. As a child, he played the piano, but at the age of 14 he moved to the bass guitar. Later, after playing in an Army band for two years, he began studying upright bass with maestro Michael Klinghoffer. Two years later moved to New York City, and got in contact with other jazz players.
- Shahar Pe'Er
Shahar Pe'er is a 1.71 m (5' 7") right-handed professional female tennis player. On January 29, 2007, she achieved her highest WTA ranking of # 15, and (together with Anna Smashnova) became the highest ranked Israeli tennis player ever.
- Chaim Joseph David Azulai
Rabbi Chaim Joseph David ben Isaac Zerachia Azulai (1724 - 21 March 1807), commonly known as the Chida (by the acronym of his name), was a rabbinical scholar and a noted bibliophile, who pioneered the history of Jewish religious writings.
- Shlomo Moussaieff
Shlomo Moussaieff (born circa 1925) is an Israeli born millionaire who has lived in London since the early 1960s. He is the son of Rehavia Moussaieff, and grandson of Shlomo Moussaieff of Bukhara. He made most of his fortune by selling precious jewelry to international royalty and high society, especially Saudis and Gulf Arabs. He speaks Arabic fluently. The average price of a necklace in his store, located in the Hilton hotel in London's Mayfair district, …
- Eliezer Goldberg
Eliezer Goldberg is a former Israeli Supreme Court judge, and former State Comptroller
- Raphael Maklouf
Raphael Maklouf (born 10 December 1937) is a sculptor, best known for designing the effigy of Queen Elizabeth used on Commonwealth coinage from 1985 to 1997 (on coinage of Hong Kong until 1992). Maklouf was born in Jerusalem, emigrating with his family to the United Kingdom after the Second World War. He attended the Camberwell School of Art until 1958, afterward becoming an academic lecturer for ten years.
- Moses Hagiz
Moses Hagiz (Hebrew: משה חגיז) was a Talmudic scholar, rabbi, kabbalist, and author born in Jerusalem. According to Elisheva Carlebach, Moses Hagiz was one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders in 17th-century Amsterdam. During Hagiz's lifetime there was an overall decline in rabbinic authority which Carlebach argues was the result of migration and assimilation, and Hagiz devoted his career to restoring rabbinic authority.
- Yossi Banai
Yossi Banai (circa 1932 - May 11 2006) was an Israeli performer, singer and dramatist. Banai was born in Jerusalem, and grew up in the neighborhood of the Mahne Yehuda market. He was one of the more prominent members of a family celebrated for producing several famous performers and musicians: his brothers Gavri, Ya'akov and Haim are actors, his son Yuval and nephews Ehud, Uri, Me'ir and Evyatar are musicians and singers (some of whom occasionally act), …
- Nachson Wachsman
Nachshon Wachsman, was a corporal in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 9, 1994. On October 14, Wachsman was killed during a rescue attempt.
- Idan Tal
Idan Tal (born September 13, 1975 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli association football (soccer) player who currently plays as a midfielder for English Premier League (Barclays Premiership) club Bolton Wanderers in season 2006-07. Idan Tal started his career at Maccabi Petah Tikva during the 1996-97 season and played 71 games until his move to Hapoel Tel Aviv in December 1999. He played 14 games until the end of the season before moving on again, …
- Eliahu Inbal
Eliahu Inbal is a prominent orchestral conductor. Inbal was born in Jerusalem. He studied violin at the Israeli Academy of Music and took composition lessons with Paul Ben-Haim. Upon hearing him there, Leonard Bernstein endorsed a scholarship for Inbal to study conducting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and he also took courses with Sergiu Celibidache and Franco Ferrara in Hilversum (the Netherlands).
- Meshulam Nahari
Rabbi Meshulam Nahari (born 7 May 1951) is an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset for the ultra-orthodox party Shas. He is a Minister without Portfolio serving in the Finance Ministry in the current government.
- Yaacov Haber
- Uri Malmilian
Uri Malmilian (born April 24, 1957) is an Israeli football manager and currently the manager of the Hakoah Ramat Gan.
- Nissim Ze'Ev
Nissim Zeev (in Hebrew נסים זאב is an Israeli politician and a Shas member of the Knesset. Born in Jerusalem, he was Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, from 1983 through 1998. He has been a Member of Knesset since 1999. In June 2007 he spurred controversy by comparing homosexuals to drug addicts and suggesting that rehabiliation centers be set up for them throughout Israel.
- Eli Ohana
Eli Ohana (born February 1, 1964 in Jerusalem, Israel) is an Israeli football manager and currently the manager of the Hapoel Kfar Saba.
- Amos Kollek
Amos Kollek is a film director, writer and actor, born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1947. He is the son of the long-time mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, about whom he also made a film.
- Brian George
Brian George (born July 1952, Jerusalem, Israel) is an English-Israeli character actor who typically plays guest roles for characters of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent, some more stereotypical than others. Perhaps his most famous role is as Pakistani restaurateur Babu Bhatt on "Seinfeld".
- Serene Husseini Shahid
Serene Husseini Shahid (French: Sirine Husseini Shahid, b. 1920) was born in Jerusalem as a member of the influential Husayni family. Her father was Jamal al-Husayni, her maternal grandfather was Mayor of Jerusalem Faidi al-Alami, and her maternal uncle was Musa al-Alami. She was educated at the American Friends School in Ramallah, later at the American University of Beirut. She married Dr Munib Shahib in 1944 and they settled in Beirut.
- Shaike Ophir
Shaike Ophir was a prominent Israeli actor, comedian, writer, director, and mime. Ophir was born In Jerusalem to a family that traces its roots in Israel to the mid 19th Century. He studied acting as an adolescent, but left school in the 1940’s to join the Palmach on the hills of increasing tension between the Jewish Settlement and the neighboring Arabs. During Israel’s War of Independence, he escorted convoys to the besieged city of Jerusalem, …
- Dorrit Moussaieff
Dorrit Moussaieff is a jewellery designer and businesswoman and the second and current wife of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president of Iceland. Dorrit Moussaieff is the daughter of Shlomo Moussaieff and Aliza Moussaieff and is Iceland's second foreign-born first lady, as the first president, Sveinn Björnsson, had a Danish wife. She was young when she moved to London. She suffered from dyslexia so she didn't attend ordinary schools but was taught at home.