Spector, Israeli fighter pilot 23 October – Fouad Twal, the Roman Catholic archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since June 2008 24 October – Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (died 2015) 24 October – Dan Shilon, Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, TV host and media personality 18 November – Haim Harari, Israeli theoretical physicist; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science 24 December – Shaul Amor, Israeli politician (died 2004) Full date unknown Amin al-Hindi, Palestinian Arab, intelligence chief of the Palestinian National Authority (died 2010) Laila Shawa, Palestinian Arab artist Motti Ashkenazi, Israeli war hero of the Yom Kippur War and protest leader Notable deaths 4 August – Ze'ev Jabotinsky (born 1880), Russian (Ukraine)-born Revisionist Zionist leader, author, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa 29 December – Dov Hoz (born 1894), Russian (Belarus)-born Zionist leader, founding member of the Haganah, and aviation pioneer References Years in Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine in World War II