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Relating to public figures or personalities, celebrities or otherwise, who have made significant progress in their particular professional field, or who have helped or influenced wider society to an outstanding degree.

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S. Yizhar

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Yizhar Smilansky (27 September 1916 – 21 August 2006), known by his pen name S. Yizhar, was an Israeli writer and politician.Yizhar Smilansky was born in Rehovot to a family of ...

Leo Aryeh Mayer

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Leo Aryeh Mayer (12 January 1895 – 6 April 1959), was an Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Shlomo Yosef Zevin

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Shlomo Yosef Zevin (born 1888; died 28 February 1978) was one of the most prominent Orthodox rabbis of the 20th century. He founded the Encyclopedia Talmudit, a Hebrew Halachic ...

Selig Suskin

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Selig Suskin (1873–26 February 1959) was an Israeli agronomist and an early member of the Zionist movement.Suskin was born in 1873 in Crimea, then part of the Russian Empire and ...

Bernhard Zondek

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Bernhard Zondek (July 29, 1891 - November 8, 1966) was a German-Jewish gynecologist who developed the first reliable pregnancy test in 1928.Bernhard Zondek was born in Wronke, ...

Leo Picard

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Leo Picard, also known as Yehudah Leo Picard (born 3 June 1900, died 4 April 1997), was an Israeli geologist and an expert in the field of hydrology.Picard was born in Germany in ...

Yehoshua Bertonov

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Yehoshua Bertonov (1879–1971), was an Israeli stage actor.Bertonov was born in 1879 in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, and acted in the theatre in Vilna (Vilnius) from ...