The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Israel
This page contains a list of the greatest Israeli Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 840 Social Activists, 1 of which were born in Israel. This makes Israel the birth place of the 71st most number of Social Activists behind Nicaragua, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Israeli Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Leila Khaled (b. 1944)
With an HPI of 63.26, Leila Khaled is the most famous Israeli Social Activist. Her biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.
Leila Khaled (Arabic: ليلى خالد [ˈlajla ˈxaːled]; born April 9, 1944) is a former Palestinian militant and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She is famous as the first woman to hijack an airplane. Khaled gained her prominence for her role in the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous Dawson's Field hijackings the following year as part of the campaign of Black September in Jordan. After being imprisoned, she was released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by other PFLP members.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Israeli social activists born between 1944 and 1944. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Israeli social activists include Leila Khaled.
