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prime minister of Israel
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli president and scientist
Henrietta Szold
American Zionist leader
The first prime minister of Israel
Golda Meir
prime minister of Israel
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin
prime minister of Israel
Laurence Oliphant, engraving after a photograph
Laurence Oliphant
British writer
Aḥad Haʿam
Aḥad Haʿam
Zionist leader
Yitzhak Shamir
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prime minister of Israel
Chaim Herzog
Chaim Herzog
president of Israel
Vladimir Jabotinsky
Zionist leader
Ben-Zvi, 1953
Itzhak Ben-Zvi
president of Israel
Allon, Yigal
Yigal Allon
Israeli politician
Pinhas Lavon
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Moshe Sharett
prime minister of Israel
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Israeli poet
Nahum Goldmann
Israeli Zionist leader
Meir Kahane
Meir Kahane
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Levi Eshkol
Levi Eshkol
prime minister of Israel
Zalman Shazar
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