Timeline of Ottoman Syria History - Notable Births

Notable Births

1853

• Musa al-Husayni (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1934).

1880

• 18 August – Ya'akov Moshe Toledano (b. Tiberias), Palestinian and Israeli rabbi, and Israeli cabinet minister (d. 1960).

1882

• 19 November – Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (b. Jableh, Syria), Palestinian Muslim cleric, founder of the militant Black Hand movement (d. 1935).

1883

• Jamil al-Ulshi (b. Damascus), Syrian Arab politician and acting head of state during the French Mandate era (d. 1951).

1885

• Avraham Elmalih (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish journalist, community leader, Zionist activist and Israeli politician (d. 1967).

1886

• 18 September – Yehuda Burla (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish educator and Israeli author (d. 1969).
• 31 December – Israel Rokach (b. Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish politician, mayor of Tel Aviv and Israeli cabinet minister (d. 1959).

1889

• 24 December – Ovadia Hedaya (b. Aleppo), Palestinian and Israeli rabbi (d. 1969).

1895

• Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit (b. Tiberias), Palestinian Jewish police commander and Israeli cabinet minister (d. 1967).

1898

• Yitzhak Arieli (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian and Israeli rabbi (d. 1974).

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).

1906

• Mahmud Al-Nashaf (b. Tayibe), Israeli Arab politician (d. 1979).

1907

• 10 June – Ezra Ichilov (b. Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish community leader and Israeli politician (d. 1961).

1908

• 16 July – Yizhar Harari (b. Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish activist and Israeli politician (d. 1978).

1909

• 23 October – Avraham Biran (b. Petah Tikva), Israeli Jewish archaeologist (d. 2008).

1913

• 25 October – Avraham Yoffe (b. Yavne'el, Lower Galilee), Israeli Jewish military officer and politician (d. 1983).

1914

• 23 January – Yehuda Cohen (b. Safed), Israeli Jewish Supreme Court justice (d. 2009).
• 20 May – Avraham Shapira (b. Jerusalem), Israeli rabbi, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel (d. 2007).

1915

• 20 May – Moshe Dayan (b. Kibbutz Degania Alef, Lower Galilee), Israeli Jewish military officer and cabinet minister (d. 1981).
• 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 sculpturer (d. 1999).
• Binyamin Shahor (b. Jerusalem), Israeli Jewish politician (d. 1979).

1917

• 21 March – Yigael Yadin (b. Jerusalem), Israeli Jewish archeologist, military officer and cabinet minister (d. 1984).
• 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).

1918

• 4 January – Yossi Harel (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish Haganah member and commander of illegal Jewish immigrants ships (d. 2008).
• 10 October – Yigal Allon (b. Kfar Tavor, Lower Galilee), Israeli Jewish military officer and cabinet minister (d. 1980).