basketball player (died 1994) 11 February – Eliezer Waldman, Israeli politician and rabbi (died 2021) 24 February – Shimon Elituv, Israeli rabbi 23 February – Raffi Lavie, Israeli artist and art and music critic (died 2007) 13 March – Zephaniah Drori, Israeli Rabbi and rosh yeshiva 16 March – Amos Tversky, Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist (died 1996) 26 March – Ahmed Qurei, Palestinian Prime Minister (died 2023) 4 April – Ya'akov Tzur, Israeli politician 6 April – Uzi Baram, Israeli politician 14 April – Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman (died 2013) May – Abu Nidal, Palestinian Arab, founder of Fatah – The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian group, commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (died 2002) 28 June – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian Arab, co-founder and leader of Hamas (died 2004) 30 June – Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (died 2012) 11 July – Adin Steinsaltz, Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2020) 20 July – Zalman Baruch Melamed, Israeli Rabbi and founder of the Arutz Sheva news service 5 August – Amir Drori, Israeli military officer (died 2005) 5 August – Dan Shomron, Israeli military officer, 13th Chief of Staff of the IDF (died 2008) 30 August – Yigal Cohen-Orgad, Israeli politician (died 2019) 3 September – Ruchama Marton, Israeli physician, psychiatrist, and political activist 6 November – Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal, Israeli Arab Anglican bishop 11 November – Yitzhak Ziv, Israeli politician 18 December – Moshe Sharon, Israeli historian 26 December – Eliezer Berland, Israeli rabbi Undated: Arie Vardi, Israeli musician Uzi Rubin, Israeli engineer Abdul Rahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud, Palestinian Arab poet (died 2010) Abu Daoud, Palestinian Arab politician and military commander, planned 1972 Munich Olympics massacre (died 2010) Samir Ghawshah, Palestinian Arab, member of the PLO executive (died 2009) Nahid al-Rayyis, Palestinian Arab politician and poet (died 2010) Hanna Siniora, Palestinian Christian businessman and politician Naim Ateek, Palestinian Christian priest, founder and head of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem. Deaths Palestine Years in Mandatory Palestine