List of people from Safed
This is a list of notable people from Safed.
Born in Safed
Rabbi Chaim Hirschensohn
- Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935), Palestinian president since 2005[1]
- Jussuf Abbo (1890–1953), Palestinian Jewish sculptor and printmaker who was successful in Germany in the 1920s
- Modi Alon (1921–1948), Israeli fighter pilot
- Moshe Amar (1922–2015), politician who served as a member of Knesset between 1977 and 1981
- Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (1533–1600), kabbalist and poet
- Yehoshua Bar-Yosef (1912–1992), writer
- Giovanni Giuda Giona Battista (1588-1668), rabbi who converted to Catholicism
- Fazil Bey (1789–1810), author of Zenanname (The Book of Women)[2]
- Yehuda Cohen (1914–2009), Israeli Supreme Court justice
- Yaakov Shaul Elyashar (1817–1906), Sephardi Chief Rabbi
- Wadie Haddad (1927–1978), also known as Abu Hani, the Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's armed wing
- Chaim Hirschensohn (1857–1935), rabbi
- Salma Jayyusi (c. 1926), Palestinian-Jordanian poet and translator
- Subhi al-Khadra (1954–1895), Palestinian Arab politician, lawyer, and newspaper columnist
- Baruch Maman (born 1955), Israeli footballer
- Meir Meivar (1918–2000), the Haganah commander of Safed during 1948 and mayor of Safed between 1965 and 1966
- Chava Mond (born 1984), Israeli model
- Israel ben Moses Najara (c. 1555–c. 1625), Jewish poet
- Itay Ne'eman, UCLA mathematics professor and logician
- Esther Ofarim (born 1941), folk singer
- Yogev Ohayon (born 1987), basketball player
- Samir al-Rifai (1901–1965), politician who served six times as Jordanian prime minister
- Moshe Roas (born 1981), artist
- Nabil Shaath (born 1938), negotiator for the Palestinian National Authority and its first foreign minister
- Khalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī, author and historian
- Al-Khalidi al-Safadi (died 1625), Ottoman historian and the Hanafi mufti of Safed
- The Shadow (born 1977), rapper
- Moshe Shamir (1921–2004), author
- Ilan Shohat (born 1974), mayor of Safed from 2008 to 2018
- Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542–1620), Jewish rabbi and disciple of Isaac Luria
Notable residents of Safed
Rabbi Joseph Karo
- Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz (c. 1500–1576), 16th-century rabbi, kabbalist and poet perhaps best known for his composition of the song "Lecha Dodi"
- Moshe Alshich (1508–1593), prominent rabbi, preacher, and biblical commentator in the latter part of the 16th century
- Jacob Berab (1474–1546), influential rabbi and talmudist of the 15th century best known for his attempt to reintroduce rabbinic ordination
- Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522–1570), leader of mystical school in Safed in the 16th century
- Shmuel Eliyahu (born 1956), Chief Rabbi of Safed
- Yitzhak Frenkel Frenel (1899–1981), father of Israeli modern art
- Shimshon Holzman (1907–1986), artist
- Joseph Karo (1488–1575), 16th-century rabbi, and author of the great codification of Jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch
- Lior Lubin (born 1979), basketball player and coach
- Isaac Luria (1534–1572), rabbi and Jewish mystic of the 16th century in the community of Safed in Ottoman Palestine. He is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah.[3]
- Miriam Mehadipur (born 1960), Tzfat resident Israeli artist since 1999 of Dutch birth,[4] owner of Mehadipur + Collection[5]
- Moshe of Trani (1500–1580), rabbi of Safed from 1525 until 1535
- Possibly the Biblical Woman with seven sons whose tomb is often said to be an ancient tomb discovered in the old cemetery of the city
References
- Jodi Rudoren (November 4, 2012). "Palestinian's Remark, Seen as Concession, Stirs Uproar". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
- Mansel, Philip (1995). Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453–1924. John Murray. p. 185. ISBN 9781848546479.
- Eisen, Yosef (2004). Miraculous journey : a complete history of the Jewish people from creation to the present (Rev. ed.). Southfield, Mich.: Targum/Feldheim. p. 213. ISBN 1568713231.
- "Miriam Mehadipur Gallery Safed". Zissil.com. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
- "Mehadipur + Collection". Mehadipurandcollection.com. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
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