Haim Nissim Amzlag was a Jewish businessman and community leader during the Yishuv period.

Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer and movie/theater actress of Yemeni descent.

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.

Moshe Yitzhak Matlon was one of Tel Aviv's founders. Born in Jaffa, he studied at Mikve Israel and was one of the first Sephardim to graduate from the school. Then, he studied law, and in 1896, opened a law office in Jaffa and became one of the first Jewish lawyers in the city. 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.

Rabbi Juda (Yehuda) HaLevi was a Sephardic rabbi, philosopher, doctor, and poet born in Tudela (Spain).

Zohar Argov was an Israeli singer of Yemeni descent, who strongly influenced Mizrahi music in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s.

Kazablan is an Israeli movie (inspired by a play) released in 1974.