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Born 1798 • Sarajevo • Ottoman Empire
Died 1878 (aged 80) • Jerusalem • Palestine
The father of modern Zionism
Theodor Herzl
Austrian Zionist leader
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
prime minister of Israel
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli president and scientist
The first prime minister of Israel
Golda Meir
prime minister of Israel
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin
prime minister of Israel
Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzḥak Shamir
prime minister of Israel
Vladimir Jabotinsky
Zionist leader
Ben-Zvi, 1953
Itzhak Ben-Zvi
president of Israel
Sokolow, Nahum
Nahum Sokolow
British writer
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Israeli poet
Levi Eshkol
Levi Eshkol
prime minister of Israel
Aaron David Gordon
Russian author and philosopher
Albert Halper
American author
Yosef Lapid
Israeli journalist and politician
Jesus Christ
Jesus
Babel, Isaac
Isaac Babel
Russian author
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Philip IV
Philip IV
king of France
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher