Institutions
First President of the State of Israel, pioneering chemist and biochemist, Zionist statesman, key figure behind the Balfour Declaration and founder of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Israeli diplomat, statesman, scholar and orator, foreign minister in decisive years, ambassador to the United Nations and the United States, architect of Israel’s early public diplomacy and a major interpreter of Jewish history to the world
Zionist pioneer, labor leader, founder of major workers’ institutions, member of Israel’s first Knesset and mayor of Haifa from 1951 to 1969, who shaped the city as a center of labor, education, culture, transportation and public life
Israeli diplomat, former Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, close adviser to Shimon Peres, policy thinker, author and senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, active at key intersections of diplomacy, peace efforts and Israel-Diaspora strategy
Journalist, lawyer, writer, playwright, diplomat and founder of modern political Zionism, who transformed an ancient Jewish longing into an organized international movement and a political vision that led toward the State of Israel
Israel’s first prime minister, declarer of independence, leader of the Yishuv and Labor Zionism, architect of Israeli statehood and one of the central Jewish figures of the 20th century
Israeli intelligence officer, diplomat, Foreign Ministry director general, author and journalist, whose career linked Mossad service, backchannel diplomacy, foreign policy and regional peace efforts
Baron Rothschild, the Well-Known Benefactor and Father of the Yishuv, whose philanthropy, land purchases, agricultural investment and institution-building helped sustain the First Aliyah settlements and lay practical foundations for the Jewish national home
Henryk Goldszmit, the Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, writer, publicist and social activist who became a pioneer of children’s rights and democratic education, and a moral symbol when he chose to remain with the children of his orphanage until their murder at Treblinka
Israeli industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of ISCAR, Blades Technology and IMC, pioneer of industrial parks, Israel Prize laureate and former Knesset member who made manufacturing, technical education and regional development a form of practical Zionism
Israeli statesman, ninth President of Israel, Prime Minister, Defense Minister, Foreign Minister, builder of Israel’s security establishment, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leading voice of Israeli innovation, diplomacy and peace
One of the world’s largest Hasidic communities, rebuilt after the Holocaust into a global network of religious, educational, charitable and Yiddish-speaking institutions while maintaining a distinctive anti-Zionist theology