Attallah, Palestinian Arab businessman and writer Ruth Horam, Israeli painter and sculptor Avraham Katz, Israeli politician Farouk Kaddoumi, Palestinian Arab, senior member of Fatah Shaul Foguel, Israeli mathematician (died 2020) Taha Muhammad Ali, Israeli Arab poet (died 2011). Ram Karmi, Israeli architect (died 2013) Notable deaths 16 April – Rachel Bluwstein (commonly referred to as "Rachel the poetess") (born 1890), Russia-born Palestinian Jewish poet. References Palestine Years in Mandatory Palestine