Ofra Haza

Ofra Haza

female, deceased (2000)
Ofra Haza November 19 1957 - February 23 2000) was a popular Israeli singer, actress and international recording artist. Of Yemenite Jewish...
Yigal Amir

Yigal Amir

male, 39 years old
Yigal Amir (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. The assassination took place November 4,...

Jacob ben Nathanael

male
Jacob ben Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi was a "rosh yeshiva" of the Yemenite Jews in the second half of the twelfth century CE. All that is known of him...
Dhu Nuwas

Dhu Nuwas

male
Yūsuf Dhū Nuwas was the last king of the Himyarite kingdom of Yemen. Some sources state that he was the successor of Rabia ibn Mudhar, a member of...

Kfar Tapuach

male
Kfar Tapuach ("lit." Apple-ville) is an Israeli settlement in the Samaria region of the West Bank, founded in 1978. It is one of the five Jewish...

Yihhyah Qafahh

male, deceased (1932)
Yihhyah Qafahh (1853-1932) was a prominent Yemenite rabbi of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He founded the Dor Dai movement in...
Shalom Sharabi

Shalom Sharabi

male
Sar Shalom Sharabi (the Rashash). Also known as Ribbi Shalom Mizraḥi deyedi`a Sharabi. (Shar'ab, Yemen 1720 - Jerusalem 1777 (10 "shevat" 5537)) wa...

Shukr Kuhayl I

male
Shukr ben Salim Kuhayl I or Mari (Master) Shukr Kuhayl I was a Yemenite messianic pretender of the 19th century. He initially revealed himself in...
Dana International

Dana International

female, 40 years old
Dana International (Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל; stage name of Sharon Cohen, born Yaron Cohen in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 2, 1969) is an Israeli tra...

Yosef Qafih

male
Rabbi Yosef Qafih, also spelled Kafich or Qafehh or Gafeh, was one of the foremost leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community, first in Yemen and...