Levi Eshkol was an Israeli politician and the third Prime Minister of the State of Israel, between 1963 and 1969.

Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel was the first appointed High Commissioner for Palestine, in charge of the administration of the territory from 1920 to 1925.

Born in Belarus to a Chabad Hasidic family, Zalman David Levontin was one of the pioneers of the first aliyah. He was one of the founders of Rishon Lezion and the Jewish Colonial Trust.

Menachem Ussishkin was a Zionist leader born in Belarus. Starting in 1878, he developed a passion for reading contemporary Hebrew writers. This sparked his commitment to promoting the revival of the Hebrew language, which became a fundamental principle for him.

Benjamin Zeev Theodor Herzl was the founder of Political Zionism and founder of the Zionist Organization.

Leon Pinsker, born in Poland in 1839, was a prominent 19th-century Jewish leader, Zionist pioneer, physician, and writer.

Shlomo (Salomon) Yaakov Florentin was a contractor and entrepreneur of Thessaloniki descent who founded the Florentin neighborhood in Tel Aviv in the 1930s.

Decades before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the establishment of a Jewish state embodying Zionist ideology had already started.

The Nahalat Binyamin Association of Jaffa (mainly made up of craftsmen) wanted to establish another neighborhood outside Jaffa, while the Ahuzat Bait Association settled one in 1909.

Moshe Yitzhak Matlon was one of Tel Aviv's founders. The Matlon family first arrived in Israel from Iraq in 1817, over 200 years ago, playing a pioneering role in establishing the Jewish community in Jaffa.