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 and Haganah intelligence officer (d. 1984). 1905 23 July - Oved Ben-Ami (b. Petah Tikva), Israeli politician and businessman, Zionist settlement activist and first mayor of Netanya (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 the Supreme Court of Israel and writer of the first draft of the Israeli 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 of Mossad (d. 1959). Moshe Castel (b. Jerusalem), Israeli painter (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