Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and formerly Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire.

Meir Feinstein was an Irgun operative who was injured while launching a railroad attack in Jerusalem and was subsequently captured and sentenced to death by the British authorities in Palestine. Before the execution by hanging could be carried out, he and his friend and fellow prisoner Moshe Barazani blew themselves up with grenades.

Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the (now) Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, and a renowned Torah scholar. He is known in Hebrew as הרב אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק "HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook", and by the acronym "HaRaAYaH" or simply as "HaRav."

Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was principally responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language from its previous state as a liturgical language. Born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman in Luzhki (Лужки), a shtetl which now lies in northern Belarus and was a part of the Vilnius Guberniya of Imperial Russia at the time. He began to study Hebrew and the Torah at age three, like many young Jewish boys in Eastern Europe.

Uri Zvi Greenberg (1896-1981), the son of a distinguished Hasidic family was raised in Lvov (now in Ukraine) and received a traditional religious education. Before he was twenty, his first poems, written in Yiddish and Hebrew, were published in contemporary periodicals. He was drafted into the Austrian army in 1915 and served until he deserted two years later. Returning to Lvov, he witnessed the pogroms of November, 1918, …

Shlomo Goren (1917-1994), was a former Orthodox Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. Goren, born "Gorenchik", was born in Zambrow, Poland and immigrated to British administered Palestine with his family in 1925. He served in the Israel Defense Forces during three wars, wrote several award-winning books on Jewish law, and was appointed Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1968. Rabbi Goren served as Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973- 1983, …

Henrietta Szold (December 21, 1860 - February 13, 1945) was a U.S. Jewish scholar and Zionist leader. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of a rabbi, she studied Talmud and established the first American night school, intended to provide English language instruction and vocational skills to Russian Jewish immigrants in Baltimore. Beginning in 1893, she worked for the Jewish Publication Society, a position she maintained for over two decades.

Simchah Bunim Alter (or Simcha Binim) (April 6 1898 - August 6 1992), who was also known by the title of his Torah work/s as the "Lev Simcha", was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi. He led the Hasidic Judaism Ger (Hasidic dynasty) as its rebbe ("spiritual leader") from 1977 to 1992 in Israel. He succeeded his brother Rabbi Yisrael Alter, becoming the fifth rebbe of Ger, as his brother had no heirs of his own.

Rabbi Shmuel Salant served as the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar. He was born in Białystok, then part of Russia. After marrying Toiba (Yonah), the eldest daughter of Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, he adopted his father-in-law's surname. At an early age his lungs became damaged, and he was advised to seek a warm climate. This induced him in 1840 to go with his wife and son Benyamin Beinish to Jerusalem.

Rabbi Moshe Halberstam (April 1, 1932 - April 26, 2006) was the son of Grand Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam of Tschakava, a scion of the Sanz dynasty, and of the daughter of Rabbi Sholom of Shotz of London. He was the Rosh Yeshivah of the Tschakava Yeshivah in Jerusalem and one of the most prominent members of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical court of Jerusalem. He was known as a well-versed Torah scholar and a decisor of Halachic law.

Judah ben Solomon Chai Alkalai (1798-October 1878) was a rabbi in Semlin and one of pioneers of modern Zionism. He became noted through his advocacy in favor of the restoration of the Jews to Palestine. By reason of some of his projects, he may justly be regarded as one of the precursors of the modern Zionists such as by Theodor Herzl. His work, "Goral la-Adonai" (A Lot for the Lord), published at Vienna, in 1857, is a treatise on the restoration of the Jews, …

Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891-1982) was a rabbi, a leader of Religious Zionism, usually associated with the Mizrachi movement in Israel, and the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mercaz haRav yeshiva. He was the son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and named in honor of his father's mentor, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, a.k.a. the Netziv. His teachings are partially responsible for the modern religious settlement movement in the disputed territories.

Josef "Jossele" Rosenblatt, Yossele Rosenblatt (May 9, 1882, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine - June 19, 1933, Jerusalem) was an Ukraine-born chazzan (cantor) and composer.

Rabbi Yisrael Alter who was also known by the title of his Torah work's as the "Beis Yisrael" was a Hasidic rebbe ("spiritual leader") who led the Ger chasidic sect as its sixth rebbe. He succeeded his father Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter and he was the Gerrer Rebbe from 1948 until his death in 1977. The dynasty began in the Polish town of Góra Kalwaria (known as "Ger" in short), the birthplace of Rabbi Yisroel.

Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, KBE (8 February 1921-31 October 1999) was the Orthodox Judaism Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth from 1967 to 1991. His successor is the present Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks.

Boris Schatz was a Lithuanian artist and sculptor, who founded what is now known as the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem

Chaim ben Moses ibn Attar was a Talmudist and kabbalist; born at Mequenez, Morocco, in 1696; died in Jerusalem July 31, 1743. He was one of the most prominent rabbis in Morocco. In 1733 he decided to leave his native country and settle in Palestine. En route he was detained in Livorno by the rich members of the Jewish community who established a "yeshiva" for him.

Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro was a Jewish rabbi and a commentator on the Mishnah, commonly known as "The Bartenura" or Obadiah of Bertinoro. He was born and lived in the second half of the fifteenth century in Italy; died in Jerusalem about 1500. He was a pupil of Joseph ben Solomon Colon (known as the "Maharik"), and became rabbi in Bertinoro, a town in the province of Forlì, whence he derived his by-name, and in Castello.

Pinhas Rutenberg was a prominent engineer and a businessman, a Russian socialist and a Zionist leader. He played an active role in two Russian revolutions, in 1905 and 1917. During World War I, he was among the founders of the Jewish Legion and of the American Jewish Congress. Later, in the British Mandate of Palestine, he had obtained an exclusive concession for production and distribution of electric power and founded the Palestine Electric Company, …

Sar Shalom Sharabi (the Rashash). Also known as Ribbi Shalom Mizraḥi deyedi`a Sharabi. (Shar'ab, Yemen 1720 - Jerusalem 1777 (10 "shevat" 5537)) was a Yemenite Jewish Rabbi who was a master of Kabbalah, as well as Torah and Talmud. He is primarily known as a Kabbalist, but his rulings on Halakha (Jewish law) were and still are considered to have high authority, particularly among Yemenite Jews, but to some extent among Jews world wide.

Abraham Moses Luncz (Hebrew: אברהם לונץ) was a Russian scholar and editor born at Kovno, Russia. He went when very young to Jerusalem. Luncz, who suffered from early blindness, founded, in conjunction with Dr. Koisewski, an institution for the blind at Jerusalem. In the exploration of the Holy Land, Luncz has rendered great services from the historical, geographical, and physical standpoints, through his guide-books for Palestine, …

Else Lasker-Schüler was a German Jewish poet.