Jerusalem

Famous Citizens

S. Y. Agnon (1887–1970), fiction writer.

Yehuda Amichai (b. 1924), poet.

Aharon Appelfeld (b. 1932), novelist.

David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), Israel's first prime minister.

David Grossman (b. 1954), novelist.

Teddy Kollek (b. 1911), longtime mayor.

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), historian of mysticism.

Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), early Zionist leader and first president of Israel.

Avraham B. Yehoshua (b. 1936), novelist and playwright.