Following aretimelines of the history ofOttoman Syria, taken as the parts ofOttoman Syria provinces underOttoman rule.

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• July 1516 –Selim I of theOttoman Empire declares war on theMamluks and invades Syria.
• 1517: TheOttoman Empire captures Jerusalem after SultanSelim I defeats the lastMamluk SultanAl-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri at theBattle of Marj Dabiq the previous year. Selim proclaims himselfCaliph of the Islamic world.
• 1535–1538:Ottoman SultanSuleiman I rebuilds theWalls of Jerusalem.
• 1541:Ottoman SultanSuleiman I sealed off theGolden Gate to prevent theJewish Messiah's entrance.
• 14 January 1546: A devastating earthquake shook theLevant. The epicenter of the earthquake was in theJordan River in a location between theDead Sea and theSea of Galilee. The cities ofJerusalem,Hebron,Nablus,Gaza andDamascus were heavily damaged.

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• 1604: FirstProtectorate of missions agreed under theCapitulations of the Ottoman Empire, in whichAhmad I agreed that the subjects ofHenry IV of France were free to visit the Holy Places of Jerusalem. French missionaries begin to travel to Jerusalem and other majorOttoman cities.
• 1610: the firstArabic printing press in theArab world founded inDayr-Qazahya byMaronite monks.^{[1][2][verification needed]}
• 1622:Fakhr ad-Din al-Ma'ni, prince ofShouf inMount Lebanon, defeats at theBattle of Anjar an army led by the Wali (governor) ofDamascus Mustafa Pasha.
• 1624: occupied with threat from theSafavids ofIran, the Ottomans agree to make Fakhr ad-Din governor over a region extending fromAleppo toArish. During his rule, Fakhr ad-Din initiates political and cultural relations withEurope.
• 1633: the Wali of DamascusAhmed Pasha leads a campaign against Fakhr ad-Din from both land and sea.^{[citation needed]}
• 1635: Fakhr ad-Din is hanged in Damascus.
• 1663–1665:Sabbatai Zevi, founder of theSabbateans, preaches in Jerusalem before travelling back to his nativeSmyrna where he proclaimed himself theMessiah

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• 1700:Judah the Pious with 1,000 followers settle in Jerusalem.
• 30 October 1759: A devastating earthquake shookGalilee. The epicenter of the earthquake was in theJordan River in a location between theSea of Galilee and theHula Valley. The cities ofSafed,Tiberias,Acre,Sidon were heavily damaged.
• 3–7 March 1799:Napoleonic Wars:Siege of Jaffa – Napoleon captures the city ofJaffa.
• 20 March – 21 May 1799:Napoleonic Wars:Siege of Acre – An unsuccessful attempt by Napoleon to capture the city ofAcre.
• 8 April 1799:Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Nazareth
• 11 April 1799:Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Cana
• 16 April 1799:Napoleonic Wars: TheBattle of Mount Tabor –Napoleon drivesOttoman Turks across theRiver Jordan nearAcre.

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• 1831:Muhammad Ali of Egypt's French-trained forces occupySyria.
• 1832: an Egyptian Army led byIbrahim Pasha of Egypt marches onAnatolia and defeats an Ottoman army underGrand Vizier Reshid Pasha at theBattle of Konya.
• 10 May 1832: TheEgyptians, aided byMaronites, seizeAcre from theOttoman Empire after a 7-monthsiege.
• 1833: Western powers broker theConvention of Kutahya. The terms require Muhammad Ali to withdraw his troops from Anatolia and receive the territories of Syria,Crete, andHijaz in exchange.
• 1834–1835:Syrian Peasant revolts, includingSanjak of Jerusalem, Sidon Eyalet andAleppo Eyalet.
• 1 January 1837:Galilee earthquake of 1837 – a devastatingearthquake the shook theGalilee region, killing thousands of people.^[3]
• 1839: TheUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, backed by theRussian Empire and theAustrian Empire, compelsJuly Monarchy France to abandonMuhammad Ali of Egypt, and it forces him to returnSyria andArabia to theOttoman Empire.
• 15 July 1840: TheAustrian Empire, theUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, theKingdom of Prussia, and theRussian Empire sign theConvention of London with the ruler of theOttoman Empire. The signatories offered to Muhammad Ali and his heirs permanent control overEgypt and theAcre Sanjak, provided that these territories would remain part of the Ottoman Empire and that he agreed within ten days to withdraw from the rest ofSyria and returned to SultanAbdülmecid I theOttoman fleet which had defected toAlexandria. Muhammad Ali was also to immediately withdraw its forces from Arabia, theHoly Cities,Crete, theAdana District, and all of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1840: TheTanzimat reforms begin to have an impact in Syria.^{[citation needed]}
• 1840: Sectarian clashes in Mount Lebanon betweenDruze andChristianMaronites.
• 1847: theSyrian Association founded in Beirut.^{[citation needed]}
• 1850:Christians massacred in theVilayet of Aleppo.
• 1860: The first Jewish neighborhood (Mishkenot Sha'ananim) is built outside the walls of theOld City of Jerusalem.^[4]
• 1860: Clashes between Druze and Maronites inMount Lebanon andDamascus.
• 9 June 1861: European powers led by France intervene on the side of the Maronites and force the Ottomans to establish the Maronite-dominatedMutesarrifiyyet of Mount Lebanon.
• 1868: TheAmerican University in Beirut established under the name of theSyrian Protestant College.
• 1868: theSyrian Scientific Society founded in Beirut.^{[citation needed]}
• 1874:Jerusalem Sanjak becomes a Mutesarrifiyyet gaining a special administrative status.
• 1877–1878: TheRusso-Turkish War causes increased taxation in Syria.
• 1882–1903: TheFirst Aliyah took place in which 25,000–35,000 Jew immigrants immigrated toOttoman Syria.
• 1887-8: Ottoman Palestine was divided intoJerusalem Sanjak,Nablus Sanjak andAcre Sanjak.^{[citation needed]}
• 1893: A fire destroys theGreat Mosque of Damascus.
• 1895: Construction of railwayBeirut–Damascus.
• 1895: Construction of railway line Damascus–Rayek.^{[citation needed]}
• 29–31 August 1897: TheFirst Zionist Congress is held inBasel,Switzerland, in which theBasel Declaration was approved which determined that the Zionist movement ultimate aim is to establish ahomeland for theJewish people in the region of Palestine secured under public law.
• 1898: German KaiserWilhelm visits Jerusalem to dedicate theLutheran Church of the Redeemer. He meetsTheodor Herzl outside city walls.

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• 1900–1908:Hejaz Railway: construction of Railroad Damascus-Medina.^[5]*30
• 1901: TheJewish National Fund was founded at the FifthZionist Congress inBasel with the aim of buying and developing land in theGalileePalestine regions ofOttoman Syria for Jewish settlement.
• 1 September 1908: TheHejaz Railway opens.
• 11 April 1909:Tel Aviv was founded on theoutskirts of the ancientport city ofJaffa.
• May 1909:Hauran Druze Rebellion erupts.
• 1914: Ottomans fight on the side of theCentral Powers inWorld War I.
• 1915–1917:Famine in Syria resulting in up to 500,000 deaths due to severe shortage of supplies.^[6]
• 28 January – 3 February 1915:The British Sinai and Palestine Campaign:First Suez Offensive – A battle between the forces of theOttoman Empire and theBritish Empire in which the Turks fail in their attempt to capture or destroy theSuez Canal and are forced to withdraw their forces. The canal was vital to the British war effort.
• March–October 1915: The1915 locust plague breaks out in region.
• 16 May 1916:Britain andFrance conclude the secretSykes-Picot Agreement, which defines their respectivespheres of influence and control inWestern Asia after the expected demise of theOttoman Empire afterWorld War I. It was largely a trade agreement with a large area set aside for indirect control through an Arab state or a confederation of Arab states.
• June 1916:Grand Sharif Hussein, theSharif of Mecca who shared with his fellow Arabs a strong dislike for his Ottoman overlords, enters into an alliance with theUnited Kingdom andFrance against the Ottomans and soon thereafter commences what would become known asThe Great Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule.
• 1916: The Mutasarrifiyet ofMount Lebanon is abolished.^{[citation needed]}
• 9 January 1917:Sinai and Palestine campaign:Battle of Rafa –British Empire forces defeat the Turks inRafah and complete the re-conquest of theSinai Peninsula.
• 26 March 1917:Sinai and Palestine campaign:First Battle of Gaza – British fail to advance into Palestine after 17,000 Turkish troops block their advance.
• 6 April 1917:Sinai and Palestine campaign:The Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation – The Ottoman authorities deport the entire civilian population ofJaffa andTel Aviv pursuant to the order fromAhmed Jamal Pasha, the military governor of Ottoman Syria during theFirst World War. Although theMuslim evacuees are allowed to return before long, the Jewish evacuees were not able to return until after the British conquest of Palestine.^[7]
• 19 April 1917:Sinai and Palestine campaign:Second Battle of Gaza – Turkey repels British assault onGaza–Beersheba line.
• 6 July 1917:Sinai and Palestine campaign:Arabian troops led byT. E. Lawrence captureAqaba from the Turks, and incorporate the territory into theKingdom of Hejaz, under the rule ofPrince Faisal. The capture of Aqaba helps open supply lines fromLower Egypt to the Arab and British forces in the field further north inTransjordan and Palestine, and more importantly alleviate a threat of a Turkish offensive against the strategically importantSuez Canal.
• 31 October 1917:Sinai and Palestine campaign:Battle of Beersheba – Australian and New Zealand cavalry troops captureBeersheba from the Turks.
• 31 October – 7 November 1917:Sinai and Palestine campaign:Third Battle of Gaza – British forces captureGaza and break the Turkish defensive line in southern Palestine.
• 2 November 1917: TheBalfour Declaration is published in which the British Government declares its support for the establishment of aJewish national home in Palestine.
• 15 November 1917:Sinai and Palestine campaign: British troops captureTel Aviv andJaffa.
• 8–26 December 1917:The British Sinai and Palestine Campaign:Battle of Jerusalem – TheOttomans are defeated by the British forces at the Battle of Jerusalem. TheBritish Army's GeneralAllenby entersJerusalem on foot, in a reference to the entrance of CaliphUmar in 637.
• 1918: Forces of theArab Revolt enterDamascus accompanied byBritish troops, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule.
• 4 April 1918 – The first edition of the Hebrew-languagedaily newspaperHaaretz is published, sponsored by the British military government in Palestine.^[8]
• June 1918 – First meeting between theZionist leaderChaim Weizmann and the son of theSharif of MeccaHashemitePrince Faisal, who led the Arab forces in theArab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during theFirst World War, which takes place in Faisal's headquarters inAqaba in an attempt to establish favourable relations betweenArabs andJews in theMiddle East.
• 14 July 1918 –Sinai and Palestine campaign:Battle of Abu Tellul
• 19 September – 1 October 1918 –Sinai and Palestine campaign:Battle of Megiddo
• 23 September –Sinai and Palestine campaign: British occupation ofHaifa is completed.
• 1 October 1918 –Sinai and Palestine campaign: A combined Arab and British force occupyDamascus.
• 3 October 1918 –Sinai and Palestine campaign: The forces of theArab revolt led byPrince Faysal enter Damascus.^[9] In 1920Prince Faysal becomes the king of theArab Kingdom of Syria for a short period.
• October 1918:Sinai and Palestine campaign: The British Sinai and Palestine Campaign officially ends with the signing of theArmistice of Mudros and, shortly thereafter, theOttoman Empire is dissolved.

1853

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

1856

• Yaakov Meir (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish rabbi, firstSephardicChief Rabbi ofMandatory Palestine (d. 1939).

1858

• Yosef Navon (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish businessman who financed the construction of theJaffa–Jerusalem railway (d. 1934).

1870

• Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche (b.Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish entrepreneur, businessman, industrialist, and pioneer (d. 1934).

1874

• 2 March –Yeshayahu Press (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli researcher (d. 1955).
• Khalil Beidas (b.Nazareth), Palestinian Arab scholar and novelist (d. 1949).

1876

• Pinchas David Horowitz (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish-born AmericanHasidic rabbi (d. 1941).
• Akiva Librecht (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli Zionist activist and pioneer (d. 1958).

1880

• 23 May –Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine and Israel (d. 1953).
• 18 August –Ya'akov Moshe Toledano (b.Tiberias), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi, and Israeli cabinet minister (d. 1960).

1881

• Raghib al-Nashashibi (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab landowner and public figure (d. 1951).

1882

• 31 July –Itamar Ben-Avi (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian-Jewish activist for Zionist causes, son ofEliezer Ben-Yehuda and first native speaker ofModern Hebrew (d. 1943).
• 19 November –Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (b.Jableh,Ottoman Syria), Muslim cleric, founder of the militantBlack Hand movement in Palestine (d. 1935).
• Kamel al-Budeiri (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab politician and political activist (d. 1923).

1883

• Jamil al-Ulshi (b.Damascus), Syrian Arab politician and acting head of state during the French Mandate era (d. 1951).
• 17 July –Avraham-Haim Shag (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician (d. 1958).

1885

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

1886

• 18 September –Yehuda Burla (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli educator and author (d. 1969).

1887

• 2 August –Gad Frumkin (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli jurist, only Jewish judge on the Supreme Court ofMandatory Palestine (d. 1960).

1888

• Approximately –Yisroel Ber Odesser (b.Tiberias), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi (d. 1994).
• 4 August –Yitzhaq Shami (b.Hebron), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli writer (d. 1949).
• Alexander Aaronsohn (b.Zikhron Ya'akov), Jewish author and activist in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine (d. 1948).
• Saleh Suleiman (b.Reineh), Israeli-Arab politician (d. 1980).
• Izzat Darwaza (b.Nablus), Palestinian Arab politician, historian, and educator (d. 1984).

1889

• 11 October –Yosef Yoel Rivlin (b.Jerusalem) Israeli scholar (d. 1971).
• 23 October –Avshalom Feinberg (b.Gedera), Palestinian Jewish spy, member of theNili spying network duringWorld War I (d. 1917).
• 24 December –Ovadia Hedaya (b.Aleppo), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi (d. 1969).
• Awni Abd al-Hadi (b.Nablus), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1970).
• Rushdi al-Shawwa (b.Gaza), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1965).

1890

• 5 January –Sarah Aaronsohn (b.Zikhron Ya'akov), Palestinian Jewish spy, member of the Nili spying network (d. 1917).
• 3 May –Avraham Chaim Naeh (b.Hebron), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi andposek (d. 1954).
• Asher Mizrahi (b.Jerusalem), Jewish tenor singer and musician inTunisia (d. 1967).
• Zaki Alhadif (b. Tiberias), Palestinian Jewish politician, mayor of Tiberias (d. 1937).

1891

• 1 August –Eliyahu Hacarmeli (b.Haifa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician (d. 1952).

1892

• 7 April –Moshe Chelouche (b.Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician and businessman, mayor ofTel Aviv for ten days (d. 1968).
• 24 September –Tawfiq Canaan (b.Beit Jala), Palestinian Arab physician, medical researcher, and nationalist (d. 1964).
• Aref al-Aref (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab journalist, historian, and politician (d. 1973).

1893

• 13 August –Gad Machnes (b.Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician and businessman (d. 1954).

1894

• 25 April –Esther Raab (b.Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli author and poet (d. 1981).
• Amram Blau (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi, noted anti-Zionist activist and co-founder ofNeturei Karta (d. 1974).
• Jamal al-Husayni (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1982).
• Stephan Hanna Stephan (b.Beit Jala), Palestinian Arab writer, translator, and radio broadcaster (d. 1949).

1895

• 20 January –Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit (b.Tiberias), Palestinian Jewish police commander and Israeli cabinet minister (d. 1967).
• 13 October –Menachem Mendel Monsohn (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish born American rabbi (d. 1953).

1896

• Israel Rokach (b.Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician, second mayor ofTel Aviv (d. 1959).
• Avshalom Gissin (b.Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish Ottoman Army officer and activist in local defense for Zionist pioneers (d. 1921).
• Yitzhak Arieli (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi (d. 1974).
• Mordechai Weingarten (b.Jerusalem), Jewish community leader in Jerusalem during the1948 Arab–Israeli War,mukhtar of Jerusalem'sJewish Quarter (d. 1964).
• Mohamed Ali Eltaher (b.Nablus), Palestinian Arab journalist (d. 1974).

1897

• 3 May –Musa Alami (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1984).
• 7 June –David Tidhar (b.Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli police officer, private detective, and author (d. 1970).
• 23 July –Radi Annab (b.Nablus), Palestinian-born Jordanian military officer (d. 1993).
• 20 December –Netanel Hochberg (b.Ness Ziona), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli agronomist (d. 1983).
• Amin al-Husseini (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab nationalist leaderGrand Mufti of Jerusalem (d. 1974).

1898

• 24 February –Yaakov Ades (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi,rosh yeshiva, anddayan (d. 1963).
• Moshe Ben-Ami (b.Tiberias), Israeli politician and lawyer (d. 1960).
• Amin Tarif (b.Julis), Palestinian and Israeli Druze leader (d. 1993).
• 20 October –Yehiel R. Elyachar (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish-born American engineer, real estate developer, and philanthropist (d. 1989).

1899

• Eliyahu Elyashar (b.Jerusalem), Israeli politician and writer (d. 1981).
• Yaqub al-Ghusayn (b.Ramla), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1948).

1900

• 16 December –Avraham Kalfon (b.Tiberias), Israeli politician (d. 1983).
• Yusuf Abu Durra (b.Silat al-Harithiya), Palestinian Arab rebel commander (d. 1940).

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).
• 2 August –Ezra Danin (b.Jaffa), Israeli politician andHaganah intelligence officer (d. 1984).

1905

• 23 July –Oved Ben-Ami (b.Petah Tikva), Israeli politician and businessman, Zionist settlement activist and first mayor ofNetanya (d. 1988).

1906

• Mahmud Al-Nashaf (b.Tayibe), Israeli Arab politician (d. 1979).
• Ahmed A-Dahar (b.Nazareth), Israeli Arab politician (d. 1984).

1907

• 26 February –Zvi Berenson (b.Safed), Israeli jurist, judge on theSupreme Court of Israel and writer of the first draft of theIsraeli Declaration of Independence (d. 2001).
• 10 June –Ezra Ichilov (b.Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish community leader and Israeli politician (d. 1961).
• Benjamin Shwadran (b.Jerusalem), Israeli historian (d. 2001).
• Reuben Alcalay (b.Jerusalem), Israeli lexicographer (d. 1976).
• Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (b.Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab nationalist leader (died 1948).

1908

• 16 July –Yizhar Harari (b.Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish activist and Israeli politician (d. 1978).
• Ya'akov Gil (b.Tiberias), Israeli politician and rabbi (d. 1990).

1909

• 25 March –Elyakum Ostashinski (b.Petah Tikva), Israeli politician (d. 1983).
• 27 July –Rachel Tzabari (b.Tel Aviv), Israeli politician (d. 1995).
• 23 October –Avraham Biran (b.Petah Tikva), Israeli Jewish archaeologist (d. 2008).
• 13 December –Amnon Harlap (b.Rehovot), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli footballer (d. 2006).
• 20 December –Reuven Shiloah (b.Jerusalem), Israeli intelligence officer, first director ofMossad (d. 1959).
• Moshe Castel (b.Jerusalem), Israeli painter, volcanic ash artist (d. 1991).

1910

• 13 January –Yehuda Tzadka (b.Jerusalem), Israeli rabbi (d. 1991).
• 15 April –Bracha Zefira (b.Jerusalem), Israeli folk singer, songwriter, musicologist, and actress (d. 1990).
• 20 July –Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (b.Jerusalem), Israeli Haredi rabbi (d. 1995).
• 5 October –Avraham Nudelman (b.Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli footballer (d. 1985).
• Shoshana Shababo (b.Zikhron Ya'akov), Israeli writer (d. 1992).
• Sara Levi-Tanai (b.Jerusalem), Israeli choreographer (d. 2005).
• Tarab Abdul Hadi (b.Jenin), Palestinian Arab feminist activist (d. 1976).
• Faras Hamdan (b.Baqa al-Gharbiyye), Israeli-Arab politician (d. 1966).

1911

• 16 January –Mordechai Benshemesh (b.Tel Aviv) Palestinian Jewish born Australian architect (d. 1993).
• 5 March –Binyamin Kahane (b.Jaffa) Israeli pilot who pioneered prominent aerial tactics (d. 1956).
• 8 November –Yair Sprinzak (b.Tel Aviv) Israeli scientist and politician (d. 1999).
• Diyab Obeid (b.Tayibe), Israeli Arab politician (d. 1984).

1912

• Sholom Schwadron (b.Jerusalem), IsraeliHaredi rabbi (d. 1997).
• 29 May –Yehoshua Bar-Yosef (b.Safed), Israeli writer (d. 1992).

1913

• 25 October –Avraham Yoffe (b.Yavne'el), Israeli military officer and politician (d. 1983).
• 12 March –Ya'akov Frank (b.Jerusalem), Israeli politician (d. 1993).
• Aaron Valero (b.Jerusalem), Israeli physician and educator (d. 2000).
• Elias Nakhleh (b.Rameh), Israeli-Arab politician (d. 1990).

1914

• 23 January –Yehuda Cohen (b.Safed), Israeli Jewish Supreme Court justice (d. 2009).
• 18 March –Shneior Lifson (.Tel Aviv), Israeli scientist (d. 2001).
• 20 May –Avraham Shapira (b.Jerusalem), Israeli rabbi, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel (d. 2007).
• 24 October –Dov Yermiya (b.Beit Gan), Israeli military officer and political activist (d. 2016).
• 14 November –Shmuel Tankus (b.Jaffa), Israeli military officer, fifth commander of theIsraeli Navy (d. 2012).
• 8 December –Ruth Amiran (b.Yavne'el), Israeli archaeologist (d. 2005).

1915

• 4 January –Benjamin Elazari Volcani (b.Ben Shemen), Israeli-American biologist (d. 1999).
• 20 May –Moshe Dayan (b.KibbutzDegania Alef,Lower Galilee), Israeli Jewish military officer and cabinet minister (d. 1981).
• 23 June –Oded Burla (b.Jerusalem), Israeli writer, poet, and artist (d. 2009).
• 10 December –Eliezer Waldenberg (b.Jerusalem), Israeli Haredi rabbi anddayan (d. 2006).

1916

• 2 April –Menachem Porush (b.Jerusalem), Israeliultra-Orthodox Jewish politician (d. 2010).
• 27 September –S. Yizhar (b.Rehovot), Israeli Jewish author (d. 2006).
• Zahara Schatz (b.Jerusalem), Israeli Jewish painter and sculptor (d. 1999).
• Binyamin Shahor (b.Jerusalem), Israeli Jewish politician (d. 1979).

1917

• 6 March –Ruth Dayan (b.Haifa), Israeli social activist, founder of theMaskit fashion house, and widow of Moshe Dayan (d. 2021).
• 21 March –Yigael Yadin (b.Jerusalem), Israeli Jewish archeologist, military officer and cabinet minister (d. 1984).
• 17 May –Tony Cliff (b.Zikhron Ya'akov), originally Yigael Gluckstein, Palestinian Jewish bornTrotskyist activist in Britain (d. 2000).
• 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, inMandate Palestine (d. 2009).
• 25 December –Yigal Mossinson (b.Ein Ganim), Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor (d. 1994).

1918

• 4 January –Yossi Harel (b.Jerusalem), Israeli military intelligence officer and pre-stateHaganah member, commander of illegal Jewish immigrants ships including theSS Exodus (d. 2008).
• 30 January –Meir Meivar (b.Safed), Israeli politician and Haganah commander (d. 2000)
• 10 October –Yigal Allon (b.Kfar Tavor,Lower Galilee), Israeli Jewish military officer and cabinet minister (d. 1980).
• 15 October –Yigal Hurvitz (b.Nahlat Yehuda), Israeli politician (d. 1994).

1919

• 19 April –Haneh Hadad (b.Jish), Israeli-Arab politician and police officer (d. 2020).
• 8 May –Aharon Remez (b.Tel Aviv), Israeli politician and diplomat, and commander of the Israeli Air Force (d. 1994).
• 10 June –Haidar Abdel-Shafi (b.Gaza), Palestinian political leader (d. 2007).
• 1 July –Nissim Eliad (b.Tiberias), Israeli politician (d. 2014).
• 5 August –Menachem Ratzon (b.Petah Tikva), Israeli politician (d. 1987).
• Full date unknown –Hanna Ben Dov (b.Jerusalem), Israeli painter (d. 2008).
• Full date unknown –Ya'akov Mizrahi (b.Rehovot), Israeli politician (died 1979).
• Full date unknown –Binyamin Gibli (b.Petah Tikva), Israeli military intelligence officer (d. 2008).

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