16th century rebuilds the
Walls of Jerusalem in the mid-1530s • July 1516 –
Selim I of the
Ottoman Empire declares war on the
Mamluks and invades Syria. • 1517: The
Ottoman Empire captures Jerusalem after Sultan
Selim I defeats the last
Mamluk Sultan
Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri at the
Battle of Marj Dabiq the previous year. Selim proclaims himself
Caliph of the Islamic world. • 1535–1538:
Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I rebuilds the
Walls of Jerusalem. • 1541:
Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I sealed off the
Golden Gate to prevent the
Jewish Messiah's entrance. • 14 January 1546: A devastating earthquake shook the
Levant. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the
Jordan River in a location between the
Dead Sea and the
Sea of Galilee. The cities of
Jerusalem,
Hebron,
Nablus,
Gaza and
Damascus were heavily damaged.
17th century • 1604: First
Protectorate of missions agreed under the
Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire, in which
Ahmad I agreed that the subjects of
Henry IV of France were free to visit the Holy Places of Jerusalem. French missionaries begin to travel to Jerusalem and other major
Ottoman cities. • 1610: the first
Arabic printing press in the
Arab world founded in
Dayr-Qazahya by
Maronite monks. • 1622:
Fakhr ad-Din al-Ma'ni, prince of
Shouf in
Mount Lebanon, defeats at the
Battle of Anjar an army led by the Wali (governor) of
Damascus Mustafa Pasha. • 1624: occupied with threat from the
Safavids of
Iran, the Ottomans agree to make Fakhr ad-Din governor over a region extending from
Aleppo to
Arish. During his rule, Fakhr ad-Din initiates political and cultural relations with
Europe. • 1633: the Wali of Damascus
Ahmed Pasha leads a campaign against Fakhr ad-Din from both land and sea. • 1635: Fakhr ad-Din is hanged in Damascus. • 1663–1665:
Sabbatai Zevi, founder of the
Sabbateans, preaches in Jerusalem before travelling back to his native
Smyrna where he proclaimed himself the
Messiah 18th century '' • 1700:
Judah the Pious with 1,000 followers settle in Jerusalem. • 30 October 1759: A devastating earthquake shook
Galilee. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the
Jordan River in a location between the
Sea of Galilee and the
Hula Valley. The cities of
Safed,
Tiberias,
Acre,
Sidon were heavily damaged. • 3–7 March 1799:
Napoleonic Wars:
Siege of Jaffa – Napoleon captures the city of
Jaffa. • 20 March – 21 May 1799:
Napoleonic Wars:
Siege of Acre – An unsuccessful attempt by Napoleon to capture the city of
Acre. • 8 April 1799:
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Nazareth • 11 April 1799:
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Cana • 16 April 1799:
Napoleonic Wars: The
Battle of Mount Tabor –
Napoleon drives
Ottoman Turks across the
River Jordan near
Acre.
19th century temple and mosque in Lakatia, from an 1810 illustration by
Luigi Mayer in Lakatia, by Luigi Mayer in Ottoman Syria, by Luigi Mayer • 1831:
Muhammad Ali of Egypt's French-trained forces occupy
Syria. • 1832: an Egyptian Army led by
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt marches on
Anatolia and defeats an Ottoman army under
Grand Vizier Reshid Pasha at the
Battle of Konya. • 10 May 1832: The
Egyptians, aided by
Maronites, seize
Acre from the
Ottoman Empire after a 7-month
siege. • 1833: Western powers broker the
Convention of Kutahya. The terms require Muhammad Ali to withdraw his troops from Anatolia and receive the territories of Syria,
Crete, and
Hijaz in exchange. • 1834–1835:
Syrian Peasant revolts, including
Sanjak of Jerusalem, Sidon Eyalet and
Aleppo Eyalet. • 1 January 1837:
Galilee earthquake of 1837 – a devastating
earthquake the shook the
Galilee region, killing thousands of people. • 1839: The
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, backed by the
Russian Empire and the
Austrian Empire, compels
July Monarchy France to abandon
Muhammad Ali of Egypt, and it forces him to return
Syria and
Arabia to the
Ottoman Empire. • 15 July 1840: The
Austrian Empire, the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Kingdom of Prussia, and the
Russian Empire sign the
Convention of London with the ruler of the
Ottoman Empire. The signatories offered to Muhammad Ali and his heirs permanent control over
Egypt and the
Acre Sanjak, provided that these territories would remain part of the Ottoman Empire and that he agreed within ten days to withdraw from the rest of
Syria and returned to Sultan
Abdülmecid I the
Ottoman fleet which had defected to
Alexandria. Muhammad Ali was also to immediately withdraw its forces from Arabia, the
Holy Cities,
Crete, the
Adana District, and all of the Ottoman Empire. • 1840: The
Tanzimat reforms begin to have an impact in Syria. • 1840: Sectarian clashes in Mount Lebanon between
Druze and
Christian Maronites. • 1847: the
Syrian Association founded in Beirut. • 1850:
Christians massacred in the
Vilayet of Aleppo. • 1860: The first Jewish neighborhood (
Mishkenot Sha'ananim) is built outside the walls of the
Old City of Jerusalem. • 1860: Clashes between Druze and Maronites in
Mount Lebanon and
Damascus. • 9 June 1861: European powers led by France intervene on the side of the Maronites and force the Ottomans to establish the Maronite-dominated
Mutesarrifiyyet of Mount Lebanon. • 1868: The
American University in Beirut established under the name of the
Syrian Protestant College. • 1868: the
Syrian Scientific Society founded in Beirut. • 1874:
Jerusalem Sanjak becomes a Mutesarrifiyyet gaining a special administrative status. • 1877–1878: The
Russo-Turkish War causes increased taxation in Syria. • 1882–1903: The
First Aliyah took place in which 25,000–35,000 Jew immigrants immigrated to
Ottoman Syria. • 1887-8: Ottoman Palestine was divided into
Jerusalem Sanjak,
Nablus Sanjak and
Acre Sanjak. • 1893: A fire destroys the
Great Mosque of Damascus. • 1895: Construction of railway
Beirut–Damascus. • 1895: Construction of railway line Damascus–
Rayek. • 29–31 August 1897: The
First Zionist Congress is held in
Basel,
Switzerland, in which the
Basel Declaration was approved which determined that the Zionist movement ultimate aim is to establish a
homeland for the
Jewish people in the region of Palestine secured under public law. • 1898: German Kaiser
Wilhelm visits Jerusalem to dedicate the
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. He meets
Theodor Herzl outside city walls.
20th century (wearing Arab dress as a sign of friendship) and the
Hashemite Prince Faisal in
Transjordan in an attempt to establish favourable relations between
Arabs and
Jews in the Middle East, June 1918. • 1900–1908:
Hejaz Railway: construction of Railroad Damascus-
Medina.*30 • 1901: The
Jewish National Fund was founded at the Fifth
Zionist Congress in
Basel with the aim of buying and developing land in the
Galilee Palestine regions of
Ottoman Syria for Jewish settlement. • 1 September 1908: The
Hejaz Railway opens. • 11 April 1909:
Tel Aviv was founded on the
outskirts of the ancient
port city of
Jaffa. • May 1909:
Hauran Druze Rebellion erupts. • 1914: Ottomans fight on the side of the
Central Powers in
World War I. • 1915–1917:
Famine in Syria resulting in up to 500,000 deaths due to severe shortage of supplies. • 28 January – 3 February 1915:
The British Sinai and Palestine Campaign:
First Suez Offensive – A battle between the forces of the
Ottoman Empire and the
British Empire in which the Turks fail in their attempt to capture or destroy the
Suez Canal and are forced to withdraw their forces. The canal was vital to the British war effort. • March–October 1915: The
1915 locust plague breaks out in region. • 16 May 1916:
Britain and
France conclude the secret
Sykes-Picot Agreement, which defines their respective
spheres of influence and control in
Western Asia after the expected demise of the
Ottoman Empire after
World War I. It was largely a trade agreement with a large area set aside for indirect control through an Arab state or a confederation of Arab states. • June 1916:
Grand Sharif Hussein, the
Sharif of Mecca who shared with his fellow Arabs a strong dislike for his Ottoman overlords, enters into an alliance with the
United Kingdom and
France against the Ottomans and soon thereafter commences what would become known as
The Great Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule. • 1916: The Mutasarrifiyet of
Mount Lebanon is abolished. • 9 January 1917:
Sinai and Palestine campaign:
Battle of Rafa –
British Empire forces defeat the Turks in
Rafah and complete the re-conquest of the
Sinai Peninsula. • 26 March 1917:
Sinai and Palestine campaign:
First Battle of Gaza – British fail to advance into Palestine after 17,000 Turkish troops block their advance. • 6 April 1917:
Sinai and Palestine campaign:
The Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation – The Ottoman authorities deport the entire civilian population of
Jaffa and
Tel Aviv pursuant to the order from
Ahmed Jamal Pasha, the military governor of Ottoman Syria during the
First World War. Although the
Muslim evacuees are allowed to return before long, the Jewish evacuees were not able to return until after the British conquest of Palestine. • 19 April 1917:
Sinai and Palestine campaign:
Second Battle of Gaza – Turkey repels British assault on
Gaza–
Beersheba line. • 6 July 1917:
Sinai and Palestine campaign:
Arabian troops led by
T. E. Lawrence capture
Aqaba from the Turks, and incorporate the territory into the
Kingdom of Hejaz, under the rule of
Prince Faisal. The capture of Aqaba helps open supply lines from
Lower Egypt to the Arab and British forces in the field further north in
Transjordan and Palestine, and more importantly alleviate a threat of a Turkish offensive against the strategically important
Suez Canal. • 31 October 1917:
Sinai and Palestine campaign:
Battle of Beersheba – Australian and New Zealand cavalry troops capture
Beersheba from the Turks. • 31 October – 7 November 1917:
Sinai and Palestine campaign:
Third Battle of Gaza – British forces capture
Gaza and break the Turkish defensive line in southern Palestine. • 2 November 1917: The
Balfour Declaration is published in which the British Government declares its support for the establishment of a
Jewish national home in Palestine. • 15 November 1917:
Sinai and Palestine campaign: British troops capture
Tel Aviv and
Jaffa. • 8–26 December 1917:
The British Sinai and Palestine Campaign:
Battle of Jerusalem – The
Ottomans are defeated by the British forces at the Battle of Jerusalem. The
British Army's General
Allenby enters
Jerusalem on foot, in a reference to the entrance of Caliph
Umar in 637. • 1918: Forces of the
Arab Revolt enter
Damascus accompanied by
British troops, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule. • 4 April 1918 – The first edition of the Hebrew-language
daily newspaper Haaretz is published, sponsored by the British military government in Palestine. • June 1918 – First meeting between the
Zionist leader
Chaim Weizmann and the son of the
Sharif of Mecca Hashemite Prince Faisal, who led the Arab forces in the
Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the
First World War, which takes place in Faisal's headquarters in
Aqaba in an attempt to establish favourable relations between
Arabs and
Jews in the
Middle East. • 14 July 1918 –
Sinai and Palestine campaign:
Battle of Abu Tellul • 19 September – 1 October 1918 –
Sinai and Palestine campaign:
Battle of Megiddo • 23 September –
Sinai and Palestine campaign: British occupation of
Haifa is completed. • 1 October 1918 –
Sinai and Palestine campaign: A combined Arab and British force occupy
Damascus. • 3 October 1918 –
Sinai and Palestine campaign: The forces of the
Arab revolt led by
Prince Faysal enter Damascus. In 1920
Prince Faysal becomes the king of the
Arab Kingdom of Syria for a short period. • October 1918:
Sinai and Palestine campaign: The British Sinai and Palestine Campaign officially ends with the signing of the
Armistice of Mudros and, shortly thereafter, the
Ottoman Empire is dissolved.
Notable births 1853 •
Musa al-Husayni (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1934).
1856 •
Yaakov Meir (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish rabbi, first
Sephardic Chief Rabbi of
Mandatory Palestine (d. 1939).
1858 •
Yosef Navon (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish businessman who financed the construction of the
Jaffa–Jerusalem railway (d. 1934).
1870 •
Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche (b.
Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish entrepreneur, businessman, industrialist, and pioneer (d. 1934).
1874 • 2 March –
Yeshayahu Press (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli researcher (d. 1955). •
Khalil Beidas (b.
Nazareth), Palestinian Arab scholar and novelist (d. 1949).
1876 •
Pinchas David Horowitz (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish-born American
Hasidic rabbi (d. 1941). •
Akiva Librecht (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli Zionist activist and pioneer (d. 1958).
1880 • 23 May –
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine and Israel (d. 1953). • 18 August –
Ya'akov Moshe Toledano (b.
Tiberias), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi, and Israeli cabinet minister (d. 1960).
1881 •
Raghib al-Nashashibi (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab landowner and public figure (d. 1951).
1882 • 31 July –
Itamar Ben-Avi (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian-Jewish activist for Zionist causes, son of
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and first native speaker of
Modern Hebrew (d. 1943). • 19 November –
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (b.
Jableh,
Ottoman Syria), Muslim cleric, founder of the militant
Black Hand movement in Palestine (d. 1935). •
Kamel al-Budeiri (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab politician and political activist (d. 1923).
1883 •
Jamil al-Ulshi (b.
Damascus), Syrian Arab politician and acting head of state during the French Mandate era (d. 1951). • 17 July –
Avraham-Haim Shag (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician (d. 1958).
1885 •
Avraham Elmalih (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli journalist, community leader, Zionist activist and Israeli politician (d. 1967).
1886 • 18 September –
Yehuda Burla (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli educator and author (d. 1969).
1887 • 2 August –
Gad Frumkin (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli jurist, only Jewish judge on the Supreme Court of
Mandatory Palestine (d. 1960).
1888 •
Approximately –
Yisroel Ber Odesser (b.
Tiberias), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi (d. 1994). • 4 August –
Yitzhaq Shami (b.
Hebron), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli writer (d. 1949). •
Alexander Aaronsohn (b.
Zikhron Ya'akov), Jewish author and activist in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine (d. 1948). •
Saleh Suleiman (b.
Reineh), Israeli-Arab politician (d. 1980). •
Izzat Darwaza (b.
Nablus), Palestinian Arab politician, historian, and educator (d. 1984).
1889 • 11 October –
Yosef Yoel Rivlin (b.
Jerusalem) Israeli scholar (d. 1971). • 23 October –
Avshalom Feinberg (b.
Gedera), Palestinian Jewish spy, member of the
Nili spying network during
World War I (d. 1917). • 24 December –
Ovadia Hedaya (b.
Aleppo), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi (d. 1969). •
Awni Abd al-Hadi (b.
Nablus), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1970). •
Rushdi al-Shawwa (b.
Gaza), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1965).
1890 • 5 January –
Sarah Aaronsohn (b.
Zikhron Ya'akov), Palestinian Jewish spy, member of the Nili spying network (d. 1917). • 3 May –
Avraham Chaim Naeh (b.
Hebron), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi and
posek (d. 1954). •
Asher Mizrahi (b.
Jerusalem), Jewish tenor singer and musician in
Tunisia (d. 1967). •
Zaki Alhadif (b. Tiberias), Palestinian Jewish politician, mayor of Tiberias (d. 1937).
1891 • 1 August –
Eliyahu Hacarmeli (b.
Haifa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician (d. 1952).
1892 • 7 April –
Moshe Chelouche (b.
Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician and businessman, mayor of
Tel Aviv for ten days (d. 1968). • 24 September –
Tawfiq Canaan (b.
Beit Jala), Palestinian Arab physician, medical researcher, and nationalist (d. 1964). •
Aref al-Aref (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab journalist, historian, and politician (d. 1973).
1893 • 13 August –
Gad Machnes (b.
Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician and businessman (d. 1954).
1894 • 25 April –
Esther Raab (b.
Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli author and poet (d. 1981). •
Amram Blau (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi, noted anti-Zionist activist and co-founder of
Neturei Karta (d. 1974). •
Jamal al-Husayni (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1982). •
Stephan Hanna Stephan (b.
Beit Jala), Palestinian Arab writer, translator, and radio broadcaster (d. 1949).
1895 • 20 January –
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit (b.
Tiberias), Palestinian Jewish police commander and Israeli cabinet minister (d. 1967). • 13 October –
Menachem Mendel Monsohn (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish born American rabbi (d. 1953).
1896 •
Israel Rokach (b.
Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician, second mayor of
Tel Aviv (d. 1959). •
Avshalom Gissin (b.
Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish Ottoman Army officer and activist in local defense for Zionist pioneers (d. 1921). •
Yitzhak Arieli (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi (d. 1974). •
Mordechai Weingarten (b.
Jerusalem), Jewish community leader in Jerusalem during the
1948 Arab–Israeli War,
mukhtar of Jerusalem's
Jewish Quarter (d. 1964). •
Mohamed Ali Eltaher (b.
Nablus), Palestinian Arab journalist (d. 1974).
1897 • 3 May –
Musa Alami (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1984). • 7 June –
David Tidhar (b.
Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli police officer, private detective, and author (d. 1970). • 23 July –
Radi Annab (b.
Nablus), Palestinian-born Jordanian military officer (d. 1993). • 20 December –
Netanel Hochberg (b.
Ness Ziona), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli agronomist (d. 1983). •
Amin al-Husseini (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab nationalist leader
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (d. 1974).
1898 • 24 February –
Yaakov Ades (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi,
rosh yeshiva, and
dayan (d. 1963). •
Moshe Ben-Ami (b.
Tiberias), Israeli politician and lawyer (d. 1960). •
Amin Tarif (b.
Julis), Palestinian and Israeli Druze leader (d. 1993). • 20 October –
Yehiel R. Elyachar (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish-born American engineer, real estate developer, and philanthropist (d. 1989).
1899 •
Eliyahu Elyashar (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli politician and writer (d. 1981). •
Yaqub al-Ghusayn (b.
Ramla), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1948).
1900 • 16 December –
Avraham Kalfon (b.
Tiberias), Israeli politician (d. 1983). •
Yusuf Abu Durra (b.
Silat al-Harithiya), Palestinian Arab rebel commander (d. 1940).
1902 • 27 January –
Yosef Sapir (b.
Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish politician and Israeli cabinet minister (d. 1972). • 2 February –
Eliyahu Sasson (b.
Damascus), Palestinian Jewish politician and Israeli cabinet minister (d. 1978).
1903 • 22 July –
Ami Assaf (b.
Rosh Pinna,
Upper Galilee), Palestinian Jewish community leader and Israeli politician (d. 1963). • 2 August –
Ezra Danin (b.
Jaffa), Israeli politician and
Haganah intelligence officer (d. 1984).
1905 • 23 July –
Oved Ben-Ami (b.
Petah Tikva), Israeli politician and businessman, Zionist settlement activist and first mayor of
Netanya (d. 1988).
1906 •
Mahmud Al-Nashaf (b.
Tayibe), Israeli Arab politician (d. 1979). •
Ahmed A-Dahar (b.
Nazareth), Israeli Arab politician (d. 1984).
1907 • 26 February –
Zvi Berenson (b.
Safed), Israeli jurist, judge on the
Supreme Court of Israel and writer of the first draft of the
Israeli Declaration of Independence (d. 2001). • 10 June –
Ezra Ichilov (b.
Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish community leader and Israeli politician (d. 1961). •
Benjamin Shwadran (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli historian (d. 2001). •
Reuben Alcalay (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli lexicographer (d. 1976). •
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (b.
Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab nationalist leader (died 1948).
1908 • 16 July –
Yizhar Harari (b.
Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish activist and Israeli politician (d. 1978). •
Ya'akov Gil (b.
Tiberias), Israeli politician and rabbi (d. 1990).
1909 • 25 March –
Elyakum Ostashinski (b.
Petah Tikva), Israeli politician (d. 1983). • 27 July –
Rachel Tzabari (b.
Tel Aviv), Israeli politician (d. 1995). • 23 October –
Avraham Biran (b.
Petah Tikva), Israeli Jewish archaeologist (d. 2008). • 13 December –
Amnon Harlap (b.
Rehovot), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli footballer (d. 2006). • 20 December –
Reuven Shiloah (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli intelligence officer, first director of
Mossad (d. 1959). •
Moshe Castel (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli painter, volcanic ash artist (d. 1991).
1910 • 13 January –
Yehuda Tzadka (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli rabbi (d. 1991). • 15 April –
Bracha Zefira (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli folk singer, songwriter, musicologist, and actress (d. 1990). • 20 July –
Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli Haredi rabbi (d. 1995). • 5 October –
Avraham Nudelman (b.
Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli footballer (d. 1985). •
Shoshana Shababo (b.
Zikhron Ya'akov), Israeli writer (d. 1992). •
Sara Levi-Tanai (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli choreographer (d. 2005). •
Tarab Abdul Hadi (b.
Jenin), Palestinian Arab feminist activist (d. 1976). •
Faras Hamdan (b.
Baqa al-Gharbiyye), Israeli-Arab politician (d. 1966).
1911 • 16 January –
Mordechai Benshemesh (b.
Tel Aviv) Palestinian Jewish born Australian architect (d. 1993). • 5 March –
Binyamin Kahane (b.
Jaffa) Israeli pilot who pioneered prominent aerial tactics (d. 1956). • 8 November –
Yair Sprinzak (b.
Tel Aviv) Israeli scientist and politician (d. 1999). •
Diyab Obeid (b.
Tayibe), Israeli Arab politician (d. 1984).
1912 •
Sholom Schwadron (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli
Haredi rabbi (d. 1997). • 29 May –
Yehoshua Bar-Yosef (b.
Safed), Israeli writer (d. 1992).
1913 • 25 October –
Avraham Yoffe (b.
Yavne'el), Israeli military officer and politician (d. 1983). • 12 March –
Ya'akov Frank (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli politician (d. 1993). •
Aaron Valero (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli physician and educator (d. 2000). •
Elias Nakhleh (b.
Rameh), Israeli-Arab politician (d. 1990).
1914 • 23 January –
Yehuda Cohen (b.
Safed), Israeli Jewish Supreme Court justice (d. 2009). • 18 March –
Shneior Lifson (.
Tel Aviv), Israeli scientist (d. 2001). • 20 May –
Avraham Shapira (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli rabbi, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel (d. 2007). • 24 October –
Dov Yermiya (b.
Beit Gan), Israeli military officer and political activist (d. 2016). • 14 November –
Shmuel Tankus (b.
Jaffa), Israeli military officer, fifth commander of the
Israeli Navy (d. 2012). • 8 December –
Ruth Amiran (b.
Yavne'el), Israeli archaeologist (d. 2005).
1915 • 4 January –
Benjamin Elazari Volcani (b.
Ben Shemen), Israeli-American biologist (d. 1999). • 20 May –
Moshe Dayan (b.
Kibbutz Degania Alef,
Lower Galilee), Israeli Jewish military officer and cabinet minister (d. 1981). • 23 June –
Oded Burla (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli writer, poet, and artist (d. 2009). • 10 December –
Eliezer Waldenberg (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli Haredi rabbi and
dayan (d. 2006).
1916 • 2 April –
Menachem Porush (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli
ultra-Orthodox Jewish politician (d. 2010). • 27 September –
S. Yizhar (b.
Rehovot), Israeli Jewish author (d. 2006). •
Zahara Schatz (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli Jewish painter and sculptor (d. 1999). •
Binyamin Shahor (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli Jewish politician (d. 1979).
1917 • 6 March –
Ruth Dayan (b.
Haifa), Israeli social activist, founder of the
Maskit fashion house, and widow of Moshe Dayan (d. 2021). • 21 March –
Yigael Yadin (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli Jewish archeologist, military officer and cabinet minister (d. 1984). • 17 May –
Tony Cliff (b.
Zikhron Ya'akov), originally Yigael Gluckstein, Palestinian Jewish born
Trotskyist activist in Britain (d. 2000). • 8 June –
David Coren (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli Jewish politician (d. 2011). • 17 July –
Yehoshua Zettler (b.
Kfar Saba), senior member of Jewish paramilitary group,
Lehi, in
Mandate Palestine (d. 2009). • 25 December –
Yigal Mossinson (b.
Ein Ganim), Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor (d. 1994).
1918 • 4 January –
Yossi Harel (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli military intelligence officer and pre-state
Haganah member, commander of illegal Jewish immigrants ships including the
SS Exodus (d. 2008). • 30 January –
Meir Meivar (b.
Safed), Israeli politician and Haganah commander (d. 2000) • 10 October –
Yigal Allon (b.
Kfar Tavor,
Lower Galilee), Israeli Jewish military officer and cabinet minister (d. 1980). • 15 October –
Yigal Hurvitz (b.
Nahlat Yehuda), Israeli politician (d. 1994).
1919 • 19 April –
Haneh Hadad (b.
Jish), Israeli-Arab politician and police officer (d. 2020). • 8 May –
Aharon Remez (b.
Tel Aviv), Israeli politician and diplomat, and commander of the Israeli Air Force (d. 1994). • 10 June –
Haidar Abdel-Shafi (b.
Gaza), Palestinian political leader (d. 2007). • 1 July –
Nissim Eliad (b.
Tiberias), Israeli politician (d. 2014). • 5 August –
Menachem Ratzon (b.
Petah Tikva), Israeli politician (d. 1987). • Full date unknown –
Hanna Ben Dov (b.
Jerusalem), Israeli painter (d. 2008). • Full date unknown –
Ya'akov Mizrahi (b.
Rehovot), Israeli politician (died 1979). • Full date unknown –
Binyamin Gibli (b.
Petah Tikva), Israeli military intelligence officer (d. 2008). ==References==