Jaffa - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

  • Asma Agbarieh (born 1974), Israeli Arab journalist and political activist
  • Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970), Nobel Prize-winning author
  • Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884–1963), historian, Labor Zionist leader, and President of Israel
  • Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche (1870–1934), one of the founders of Tel Aviv; businessman
  • Joseph Constant (1892–1969), sculptor and writer
  • Ismail al-Faruqi (1921–86), Palestinian-American philosopher
  • Lea Gottlieb (born 1918), Israeli founder and fashion designer of Gottex
  • Victor Norris Hamilton (born c. 1919), Palestine-born American cryptologist
  • J. E. Hanauer (1850–1938), author, photographer, and Canon of St George's church
  • Yizhar Harari (1908–1978), Zionist activist and Israeli politician
  • Nadia Hilou (born 1953), Arab-Israeli politician
  • Raja El-Issa (1922–2008), Palestinian journalist
  • Michel Loève (1907–79), probabilist and mathematical statistician
  • Haim Ramon (born 1950), Israeli politician
  • Sasha Roiz (born 1973), Canadian actor
  • Yosef Sapir (1902–72), Israeli politician
  • Rifaat Turk (born 1954), Arab-Israeli football player and manager, and deputy mayor of Tel Aviv

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