Notable births
- 10 January - Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian Arab thinker, intellectual, journalist, and politician.
- 17 January - Yitzhak Moda'i, Israeli politician (died 1998).
- 5 February - Avner Shaki, Israeli politician (died 2005).
- 18 February - Meir Cohen-Avidov, Israeli politician (died 2015).
- 5 March - Shimon Tzabar, Israeli artist, author, poet and Haaretz columnist (died 2007).
- 8 March - Moshe Litvak, Israeli footballer and manager (died 2012).
- 17 April - Aharon Yadlin, Israeli educator and politician.
- 23 May - Amos Degani, Israeli politician (died 2012).
- 18 June - Avshalom Haviv, Irgun fighter and one of the Olei Hagardom (died 1947).
- 19 June - Meir Pa'il, Israeli politician and Palmach officer (died 2015).
- 20 June - Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli general, politician and historian (died 2001).
- 22 June - On Sarig, Israeli children's author (died 2012).
- 30 June - Uriel Ofek, Israeli children's writer (died 1987).
- 17 July - Shlomo Morag, Israeli professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (died 1999).
- 24 July - Zvi Dinstein, Israeli politician (died 2012).
- 26 July - Meir Nakar, Irgun fighter and one of the Olei Hagardom (died 1947).
- 2 August - George Habash, Christian Palestinian Arab nationalist, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (died 2008).
- 4 August - Hillel Omer, Israeli poet and writer (died 1990).
- 13 August - Hanoch Bartov, Israeli author and journalist (died 2016).
- 24 August – Nissim Aloni, Israeli playwright (died 1998).
- 28 September - Mordechai Hod, Israeli military officer, commander of the Israeli Air Force (died 2003)
- 29 September – Amos de-Shalit, Israeli nuclear physicist (died 1969).
- 5 October - Avraham Adan, Israeli general (died 2012).
- 7 October - Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat (died 2018).
- 23 November - Rafi Eitan, Israeli politician and former intelligence officer.
- 26 December - Yosef Shapira, Israeli politician and educator (died 2013).
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