Famous People

Shaul Tchernichovsky

Russian-born Hebrew poet (1875 – 1943)

1875 — 1943

Aharon Amir

Hebrew poet, translator and essayist (1923–2008)

1923 — 2008

Yaakov Sacks

British rabbi (1948–2020), Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth (1991-2013) and Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal (2009-2020)

1948 — 2020

Nahum Sokolow

Hebrew journalist, editor, essayist, and political leader (1859–1936)

1859 — 1936

Esfir Yan

Russian painter, Hebrew writer (1869-1919)

Abba Kovner

Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader (1918–1987)

Ronny Someck

Iraqi-Israeli Hebrew poet

Ze'ev Chomsky

Hebrew grammarian, father of Noam (1896–1977)

Nahman Nahman Bialik

Hebrew poet, author, and editor (1873–1934)

Nisan Nissan Gnessin

Hebrew Russian writer (1879–1913)

Hovsep Haim Brenner

Russian-born Hebrew-language author (1881-1921)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1888–1970)

Elia Levita

Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, scholar and poet (1469–1549)

Salomon Mocher Sforim

Yiddish-Hebrew writer (1836-1917)

Asher Ha'am

Hebrew essayist and thinker (1856–1927)

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist