List of people on the postage stamps of Israel

This is a list of people on postage stamps of Israel:

National figures

• Yigal Allon – general and 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 Israel Discount Bank (1984)^[1]
• 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 officer 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)

Religious leaders

• Moshe ben Maimon – Jewish Physician, Philosopher and Rabbi from the Middle Ages (1953)
• Israel Baal Shem Tov – founder of Hasidic Judaism (1961)
• Abraham Isaac Kook – Chief Rabbi of Israel (1978)
• Benzion Uziel – first Sepharadi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1978)
• Joshua ben Hananiah – Rabbi of the 1st century C.E. (1979)
• Yochanan Hasandlar – Rabbi of the 3rd century C.E. (1979)
• Rabbi Meir Ba'al Ha-Nes – Rabbi of the 1st century C.E. (1979)
• Abba Hillel Silver – American Rabbi, Zionist leader (1981)
• Aryeh Levin – 20th century Rabbi (1982)
• Meir Bar-Ilan – 20th century Rabbi (1983)
• Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog – first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Chief Rabbi of Israel (1984)
• Moshe Avigdor Amiel – Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1936–1945 (1987)
• Yehuda Hai Alkalai – 19th century Rabbi (1989)
• Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi) – Rabbi and Talmudic scholar (1989)
• Shimon Hakham – Rabbi (1991)
• Shalom Sharabi – 18th century Rabbinical scholar (1992)
• Chaim Joseph David Azulai – 18th century rabbinical scholar (1992)
• Chaim Benatar – 18th century rabbinical scholar (1992)
• Yosef Hayyim ben Elijah – Rabbi of Baghdad in the 19th century (1992)
• Jacob Saul Elyashar – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (2006)
• Shmuel Salant – Chief Rabbi of Jerusaelm (2006)
• Chalom Messas – Chief Rabbi of Morocco (2007)

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 – mathematician (1997)

Writers

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon – writer, Nobel Prize laureate (1981)
• Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz) – Yiddish writer (1959)
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda – father of modern Hebrew (1959)
• Peretz 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)

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)

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)
• Arnold Schoenberg – composer (1994)
• Arturo Toscanini – conductor (1986)
• Bracha Tzfira – singer (2012)

Other

• Arthur Balfour – Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom (1967)
• Martin Buber – philosopher (1997)
• Aristides de Sousa Mendes – Portuguese diplomat (1998)
• Émile Durkheim – sociologist (1997)
• Anne Frank – Holocaust victim (1988)
• Sigmund Freud – psychoanalyst (1997)
• King Hassan II of Morocco (2000)
• King Hussein of Jordan (2000)
• John Paul II – Pope (2005)
• Carl Lutz – Swiss diplomat (1998)
• Rosa Luxemburg – socialist (1997)
• Moses Montefiore – financier, philanthropist, first knighted English Jew (1981)
• Gracia Mendes Nasi – Portuguese Marrano 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)

Sousa Mendes, Lutz, Perlasca, Sugihara, Ulkumen, and Wallenberg all were recognized for having used their diplomatic positions to save numerous Jewish lives during the Holocaust, either by providing passports or by other means.

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