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Events in the year 1944 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Incumbents
Events
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Births
- 6 January –
Yair Rosenblum, Israeli composer (died 1996)
- 9 February –
Ze'ev Seltzer, Israeli footballer and football manager
- 10 February –
Assad Assad,
Druze Israeli politician, diplomat, and military officer
- 16 February –
Gaby Mazor, Israeli archaeologist
- 20 February –
Yaakov Peri, Israeli politician and director of
Shin Bet
- 6 March –
Michael Eitan, Israeli politician
- 18 March –
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, 15th Chief of Staff of the IDF (died 2012)
- 19 March –
Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of
Robert F. Kennedy
- 4 April –
Yehudit Naot, Israeli scientist and politician (died 2004)
- 4 April –
Alex Odeh,
Palestinian Christian and
Arab-American activist (died 1985)
- 9 April –
Leila Khaled, Palestinian Arab, member of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who is best known for hijacking airplanes
- 7 April –
Oshik Levi, Israeli singer and actor
- 19 April –
Yehuda Weinstein, Israeli lawyer,
Attorney General of Israel
- 20 May –
Matan Vilnai, Israeli politician and former Major General in the IDF
- 26 May –
Israel Segal, Israeli writer and journalist (died 2007)
- 29 May –
Avraham Melamed, Israeli swimmer, competed at the
1964 Summer Olympics and
1968 Summer Olympics, won two silver medals in the
1966 Asian Games
- 10 June –
Yona Wallach, Israeli poet (died 1985)
- 16 June –
Avigdor Kahalani, former Israeli politician and former Brigadier General in the IDF
- 19 June –
Yona Yahav, Israeli lawyer and politician, former mayor of
Haifa
- 22 June –
Edna Arbel, Israeli jurist and judge on the
Israeli Supreme Court
- 23 June –
Alex Levac, Israeli photojournalist and street photographer
- 20 July –
Yoram Ben-Zeev, Israeli diplomat
- 10 September –
Eitan Ben Eliyahu, Israeli general, commander of the
Israeli Air Force
- 26 August –
Ron Huldai, Israeli politician, former Israeli Air Force fighter pilot and the current mayor of
Tel Aviv
- 29 August –
Yoram Yair, Israeli general
- 19 September –
Ephraim Sneh, Israeli politician and former Brigadier General in the IDF
- 1 October –
Dror Kashtan, Israeli football manager (died
2024)
- 16 October –
Roni Brizon, Israeli politician
- 24 October –
Yaacov Shavit, Israeli historian
- 27 November –
Aryeh Stern, Israeli rabbi, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and member of the
Chief Rabbinate of Israel
- 6 December –
Arnon Milchan, Israeli film producer
- Full date unknown
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Dan Gillerman, Israeli diplomat, 13th Permanent Representative of Israel to the
United Nations
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Nahum Barnea, Israeli journalist
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Assaf Hefetz, Israeli police commissioner
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Naomi Gal, Israeli writer
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Yossi Abulafia, Israeli writer, graphic artist, and director
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Doron Rubin, Israeli general, commander of the IDF headquarters for special operations (died 2018)
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David Tartakover, Israeli graphic designer and political activist
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Yasser Abed Rabbo, Palestinian Arab politician, member of the
PLO executive
Deaths