David Ben-Gurion (born David Grun) was an Israeli politician and the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel.

Ha'poel Hatzair is the first Zionist socialist party founded in the Land of Israel in 1905 by Russian Jewish immigrants. The party's goals were Zionism's realization and the creation of a working Hebrew society. The party considered it a duty to embrace productive (industrial and agricultural) labor work in settlements and to work on Hebrew language revival.

Ahdut Ha'Avoda was a socialist Zionist party. It was founded in 1919 as a union of the "Poalei Zion" party headed by David Ben-Gurion and the "non-partisan" workers.

Golda Meir was an Israeli politician, and Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974.

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

Abraham Isaac Kook, known as Rav Kook, was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel (in British Mandatory Palestine). He is considered one of the fathers of religious Zionism.

1858 - 1922. Source: Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, id.lib.harvard.edu. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, originally named Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, was a Russian...

David Wolffsohn was a Lithuanian-Jewish businessman, an early Zionist, and the second president of the Zionist Organization.

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.