businessman, mayor of Tel Aviv for ten days (d. 1968). 24 September - Tawfiq Canaan (b. Beit Jala), Palestinian Arab physician, medical researcher, and nationalist (d. 1964). Aref al-Aref (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab journalist, historian, and politician (d. 1973). 1893 13 August – Gad Machnes (b. Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician and businessman (d. 1954). 1894 25 April – Esther Raab (b. Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli author and poet (d. 1981). Amram Blau (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi, noted anti-Zionist activist and co-founder of Neturei Karta (d. 1974). Jamal al-Husayni (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1982). Stephan Hanna Stephan (b. Beit Jala), Palestinian Arab writer, translator, and radio broadcaster (d. 1949). 1895 Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit (b. Tiberias), Palestinian Jewish police commander and Israeli cabinet minister (d. 1967). 13 October – Menachem Mendel Monsohn (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish born American rabbi (d. 1953). 1896 Israel Rokach (b. Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli politician, second mayor of Tel Aviv (d. 1959). Avshalom Gissin (b. Petah Tikva), Palestinian Jewish Ottoman Army officer and activist in local defense for Zionist pioneers (d. 1921). Yitzhak Arieli (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi (d. 1974). Mordechai Weingarten (b. Jerusalem), Jewish community leader in Jerusalem during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, mukhtar of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter (d. 1964). Mohamed Ali Eltaher (b. Nablus), Palestinian Arab journalist (d. 1974). 1897 3 May - Musa Alami (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1984). 7 June – David Tidhar (b. Jaffa), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli police officer, private detective, and author (d. 1970). 23 July - Radi Annab (b. Nablus), Palestinian-born Jordanian military officer (d. 1993). 20 December – Netanel Hochberg (b. Ness Ziona), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli agronomist (d. 1983). Amin al-Husseini (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Arab nationalist leader Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (d. 1974). 1898 24 February – Yaakov Ades (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish and Israeli rabbi, rosh yeshiva, and dayan (d. 1963). Moshe Ben-Ami (b. Tiberias), Israeli politician and lawyer (d. 1960). Amin Tarif (b. Julis), Palestinian and Israeli Druze leader (d. 1993). 20 October – Yehiel R. Elyachar (b. Jerusalem), Palestinian Jewish-born American engineer, real estate developer, and philanthropist (d. 1989). 1899 Eliyahu Elyashar (b. Jerusalem), Israeli politician and writer (d. 1981). Yaqub al-Ghusayn (b. Ramla), Palestinian Arab politician (d. 1948). 1900 16 December – Avraham Kalfon (b. Tiberias), Israeli politician (d. 1983). Yusuf Abu Durra (b. Silat al-Harithiya), Palestinian Arab