List of people on stamps of Israel

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

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, Foreigh 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)

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 Jerusaelm (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)

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)

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)

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)
• Arturo Toscanini — Conductor (1986)
• Arnold Schoenberg — Composer (1994)

Other

• Arthur Balfour — Foreign Secretary of Great Britain (1967)
• Martin Buber - Philoshopher (1997)
• Aristides de Sousa Mendes - Portugese diplomat (1998)
• Emile Durkheim - Sociologist (1997)
• Anne Frank — Holocaust victim (1988)
• Sigmund Freud - Psychoanalist (1997)
• 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)
• 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)