The Most Famous

SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Israel

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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 85th most number of Social Activists behind Turkmenistan, and Lebanon.

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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.

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1. Leila Khaled (b. 1944)

With an HPI of 66.45, Leila Khaled is the most famous Israeli Social Activist.  Her biography has been translated into 41 different languages on wikipedia.

Leila Khaled (Arabic: ليلى خالد [ˈlajla ˈxaːled]; born April 9, 1944) is a Palestinian activist and former militant who is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She is famous for her role in two plane-hijackings, and was the second woman to be involved in such an operation. 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.

Living Israeli Social Activists

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