List of people on stamps of Israel
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This is a list of people on postage stamps of Israel:
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[edit] National figures
- Yigal Allon — Israeli politician (1984)
- Sarah Aaronsohn — Zionist martyr (1991)
- Menachem Begin — Zionist leader, sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel (1993)
- David Ben-Gurion — First Prime Minister of the State of Israel (1974)
- Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi — Zionist leader (1991)
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi — Second President of the State of Israel (1964)
- Moshe Dayan — Military officer, Chief of Staff, Foreign Minister (1988)
- Meir Dizengoff — Zionist politician, first Mayor of Tel Aviv (1985)
- Abba Eban — Israeli diplomat and politician (2006)
- Levi Eshkol — Third Prime Minister of the State of Israel (1970)
- Eliyahu Golomb — Zionist military leader, chief architect of the Haganah (1978)
- Yitzhak Gruenbaum — Zionist leader, first Minister of the Interior (1980)
- Michael Halperin — Zionist leader (1984)
- Theodor Herzl — Founder of modern Zionism (1951)
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky — Zionist leader (1970)
- Berl Katznelson — Zionist leader (1978)
- Yehuda Leib Maimon — Zionist leader (1989)
- Golda Meir — Fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel (1981)
- Charles Netter — Zionist leader, founder of Mikveh Israel (1970)
- Max Nordau — Zionist leader (1978)
- Leon Pinsker — Zionist leader (1984)
- David Raziel — Zionist fighter, one of the founders of Irgun (1978)
- Yitzhak Rabin — Fifth Prime Minister of the State of Israel (1995)
- Leon Yehuda Recanati — Founder of the Palestine Discount Bank (later, Israel Discount Bank) (1984)
- Pinchas Rosen — First Minister of Justice of the State of Israel (1987)
- Edmond James de Rothschild — Philanthropist, Businessman (1954)
- Arthur Ruppin — Zionist leader (1979)
- Yitzhak Sadeh — Zionist, one of the founders of the Israel Defense Forces (1978)
- Enzo Sereni — Zionist, founder of Kibbutz Giv'at Brenner (1988)
- Moshe Sharett — Second Prime Minister of the State of Israel (1968)
- Zalman Shazar — Third President of the State of Israel (1951)
- Manya Shochat — Mother of the Kibbutz movement (1970)
- Moshe Smoira — first President of the Supreme Court of Israel (1989)
- Moshe Sneh — Zionist leader, Maki member of the Knesset (1978)
- Yosef Sprinzak — First Speaker of the Knesset (1986)
- Abraham Stern — Zionist leader (1978)
- Joseph Trumpeldor — Zionist leader (1970)
- Menahem Ussishkin — Zionist leader (1978)
- Chaim Weizmann — First President of the State of Israel (1951)
- Ezer Weizman — Seventh President of the State of Israel (2006)
- Orde Wingate — British office during the Mandate, Zionist ally (1984)
- David Wolffsohn — Zionist leader (1984)
- Yitzhak Zuckerman — Leader of the Warsaw Getto uprising (1984)
- Zivia Lubetkin Zuckerman — Leader of the Warsaw Getto uprising (1984)
[edit] Religious leaders
- Yehuda Hai Alkalai — 19th century Rabbi (1989)
- Moshe Avigdor Amiel — Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv from 1936-1945 (1987)
- Chaim Joseph David Azulai — 18th century rabbinical scholar (1992)
- Chaim Benatar — 18th century rabbinical scholar (1992)
- Yosef Chaim — Rabbi of Baghdad in the 19th century (1992)
- Israel Baal Shem Tov — Founder of Hasidic Judaism (1961)
- Meir Bar-Ilan — 20th century Rabbi (1983)
- Jacob Saul Elyashar — Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (2006)
- Shimon Hakham — Rabbi (1991)
- Abraham Isaac Kook - Chief Rabbi of Israel (1978)
- Chalom Messas — Chief Rabbi of Morocco (2007)
- Joshua ben Hananiah — Rabbi of the 1st century C.E. (1979)
- Yochanan Hasandlar — Rabbi of the 3rd century C.E. (1979)
- Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog — First Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Chief Rabbi of Israel (1984)
- Shalom Sharabi — 18th century Rabbinical scholar (1992)
- Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi) — Rabbi and Talmudic scholar (1989)
- Aryeh Levin — 20th century Rabbi (1982)
- Moshe ben Maimon — Jewish Physician, Philosopher and Rabbi from the Middle Ages (1953)
- Rabbi Meir Ba'al Ha-Nes — Rabbi of the 1st century C.E. (1979)
- Shmuel Salant — Chief Rabbi of Jerusaelm (2006)
- Abba Hillel Silver — American Rabbi, Zionist leader (1981)
- Benzion Uziel - First Sepharadi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1978)
[edit] Scientists
- Aaron Aaronsohn — Botanist (1979)
- Saul Adler — Physician, Parasitologist (1993)
- Paul Ehrlich - Immunologist (1997)
- Albert Einstein — Physicist (1955)
- Waldemar Haffkine — Microbiologist (1993)
- Aharon Katzir — Chemist (1993)
- Dr. Janusz Korczak — Physician, Teacher, Writer (1962)
- Giulio Racah — Physicist (1993)
- Norbert Wiener - Mathaematician (1997)
[edit] Writers
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon — Writer, Nobel Prize laureate (1981)
- Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz) — Yiddish Writer (1959)
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda — Father of modern Hebrew (1959)
- Perez Bernstein — Writer and Editor (1982)
- Chaim Nachman Bialik — Poet (1959)
- Rachel Bluwstein - Poet (1991)
- Lea Goldberg — Poet (1991)
- Uri Zvi Greenberg — Poet (1984)
- Rivka Guber — Writer (1992)
- Joseph Klausner — Historian, Writer (1982)
- Abraham Mapu — Novelist (1968)
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry — Writer (1994)
[edit] Biblical Figures
- Abraham (1978)
- David (1960)
- Ezekiel (1973)
- Hannah (1984)
- Huldah (1984)
- Isaac (1978)
- Isaiah (1973)
- Jeremiah (1973)
- Jacob (1978)
- Jonah (1963)
- Joshua (1982)
- Judas Maccabeus (1961)
- Leah (1977)
- Noah (1969)
- Rachel (1977)
- Rebekah (1977)
- Ruth (1994)
- Samson (1961)
- Sarah (1977)
- Saul (1960)
- Simon bar Kokhba (1961)
- Solomon (1960)
[edit] Performing Artists
- Leonard Bernstein — Composer, Conductor, Pianist (1994)
- Ernest Bloch — Composer (1994)
- Bronisław Huberman — Violinist (1986)
- Gustav Mahler — Composer, Conductor (1994)
- Felix Mendelssohn — Composer, Conductor (1994)
- Darius Milhaud — Composer (1994)
- Hanna Rovina — Actress (1992)
- Arthur Rubinstein — Pianist (1986)
- Arturo Toscanini — Conductor (1986)
- Arnold Schoenberg — Composer (1994)
[edit] Other
- Arthur Balfour — Foreign Secretary of Great Britain (1967)
- Martin Buber - Philoshopher (1997)
- Aristides de Sousa Mendes - Portuguese diplomat (1998)
- Emile Durkheim - Sociologist (1997)
- Anne Frank — Holocaust victim (1988)
- Sigmund Freud - Psychoanalist (1997)
- King Hassan II of Morocco (2000)
- King Hussein of Jordan (2000)
- John Paul II - Pope (2005)
- Carl Lutz - Swiss dilpomat (1998)
- Rosa Luxemburg - Socialist (1997)
- Moses Montefiore — Financier, Philanthropist, first knighted English Jew (1981)
- Gracia Mendes Nasi — Portuguese Marranos philanthropist (1991)
- Giorgio Perlasca - Italian diplomat (1998)
- Haviva Reik — Resistance Fighter, killed in WWII (1988)
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Humanitarian (1964)
- Shota Rustaveli - Georgian national poet (2001)
- Sempo Sugihara - Japanese diplomat (1998)
- Henrietta Szold — Founder of Hadassah (1960)
- Harry S Truman — President of the United States (1975)
- Selahattin Ulkumen - Turkish diplomat (1998)
- Raoul Wallenberg — Swedish diplomat (1983)
- Orde Wingate - British Major General (1984)
