"' (born Szymon Perski"' on August 2, 1923 in eastern Poland) is the 9th President of the State of Israel. He is a senior Israeli statesman with a political career spanning more than 65 years. He joined the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until June 13, 2007, the day he was elected President of Israel.

"'"' (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. Though revered by many Israelis, Begin’s legacy remains highly controversial and divisive. As the leader of Irgun, Begin played a central role in Jewish military resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine, but was strongly deplored and consequently sidelined by mainstream Zionist leadership.

"', born Levi Shkolnik, Hebrew לֵוִי שׁקוֹלנִיק"'; October 25, 1895 - February 26, 1969), served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office. Levi Shkolnik was born in the village of Oratov near Kiev, Ukraine. His mother came from an Hasidic background and his father came from a family of Mitnagdim.

Yigal Allon (born October 10, 1918, died February 29, 1980), commander of the Palmach, was an Israeli politician, serving as one of the leaders of Mapai and the Alignment, acting Prime Minister of Israel, member of Knesset and government minister from the tenth through the seventeenth Knessets. Alon was born in Kfar Tavor and studied at the Kadoori Agricultural High School. As a young man he joined the Jewish Settlement Police as a police officer.

Pinhas Lavon (born July 12, 1904 in Kopychintsy in what was previously Galicia now Ukraine, died January 24, 1976 in Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli politician and labor leader.

Zalman Shazar (born Shneur Zalman Rubrashov on 24 November 1889, died October 5, 1974) was an author, poet, and the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973. Born to a Hasidic family of the Chabad-Lubavitch stream in Mir, near Minsk, he received a religious education as a youth. In his teenage years he became involved in the Poalei Zion Movement.

David Levy (sometimes written David Levi born December 21, 1937) is an Israeli politician. A construction worker originally, he was born in Morocco and made Aliyah to Israel in 1957. His background as a leader of Beit Shean's poor, uneducated, Moroccan working class earned Levy a huge advantage in his early career as a union activist when he began to campaign for membership in the Histadrut Labour Federation's executive body, …

Shulamit Aloni (born November 29 1928) is an Israeli politician and left-wing activist. She is a prominent member of the Israeli peace camp, founded the Ratz party and was leader of the Meretz party and served as Israel's minister of education from 1992 to 1993. Born Shulamit Adler in Tel Aviv, her mother was a seamstress and her father was a carpenter, both descended from Polish Jewish rabbinical families.

Moshe Carmel (born 17 January 1911, died August 14 2003) was an Israeli soldier and politician. He served as Minister of Transportation for eight years.

Abba Hushi or Abba Khoushy. Hushi worked in road construction and swamp draining and was one of founders of Kibbutz Beit Alpha. He also participated in the Founding Convention of the Histadrut. In 1927, he moved to Haifa and became a member of the Labour Unity political party and afterwards a member of Mapai, and a central figure in both. He was the Secretary of the Haifa Workers Council between 1931-1951.

Yosef Sprinzak was a leading Zionist activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first Speaker of the Knesset, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959. Sprinzak was born in Moscow, Russia but following the expulsion of Jews in 1891 moved with his family to Kishinev where he was a founder of the Tze'irei Zion (Zion Youth). He began medical school at the American University in Beirut in 1908 and settled in Palestine in 1910, …

Vitaly Viktor Haim Arlosoroff, also known as Haim Arlozorov or Haim Arlozoroff, 1899-1933) was a notable Zionist and a proponent of the State of Israel and the return of Jews to the Land of Israel. Arlosoroff was born in Romny, Ukraine, but anti-Semitism forced his family to leave his birthplace and to settle in Berlin, Germany following a pogrom in 1905. This is where Haim grew up and went to school; later, …

Shmuel Dayan (often Shemuel Dayan) (8 August 1891 - 11 August 1968) was a Zionist activist during the British Mandate of Palestine and an Israeli politician who served in the first three Knessets. Born in the town of Jashkov in the Ukraine, he joined the Zionist movement as a boy and emigrated to Palestine, then under Ottoman rule in 1908. He worked in agriculture in the settlements of Petah Tikva, Rehovot, Yavne, and Kinneret until 1911, …

Amnon Linn was born in 30 March 1924 in Haifa. Both of his parents Chava and David (Dodia) Linn were part of the group of settlers who settled in Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek. Amnon Linn was a member of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement between 1940 and 1942 when he joined the Palmach and fought to take Haifa for Israel. Amnon Linn met his wife, Ruth Hushi, daughter of Abba Hushi in 1945, and married her in 1945. He has two sons - Shai and Ran, and one daughter - Orna.

Yosef Aharon Almogi (born 5 May 1910, died 2 November 1991) was an Israeli politician. Born Josef Karlenboim in Hrubieszow, Poland on May 5, 1910, he joined the Dror movement in 1924 and moved to Israel in 1930. He served as a commander of the Hagana in Kfar Saba, Tel Aviv (1936) and Haifa (1937). In 1940 he enlisted in the British Army, and fought in Greece. He was captured and spent the remainder of the War in a German POW camp.

Moshe Baram (born 17 March 1911 in Russia, died 5 December 1986) was an Israeli politician.