Netiva Ben-Yehuda (1928–2011), Palmach commander, Hebrew scholar, and author Miriam Bernstein-Cohen (1895–1991), actress Aron Brand, pediatric cardiologist Yitzhak Danziger (1916–1977), sculptor Nachum Gutman, (1898–1980), painter, sculptor, and author Ron Huldai, mayor of Tel Aviv since 1998 (as of July 2017) Yaron London, (1940–), media personality, journalist, actor, and songwriter Moshe Many, urologist; President of Tel Aviv University, and President of Ashkelon Academic College. Aharon Megged, (1920–2016), writer Moshe Menuhin, (1893–1983), author Yuval Neeman, (1925–2006), physicist Elyakum Ostashinski, first mayor of Rishon LeZion Moshe Sharett (1894–1965), second Prime Minister of Israel (1954–55) Avraham Shlonsky (1900–73), poet Giora Spiegel (born 1947), soccer player and coach Avigdor Stematsky (1908–89), painter Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar (1909–98), author Yair Lapid, (1963–) journalist, author, and politician; former Israeli Minister of Finance and chairman of the Yesh Atid Party Amos Luzzatto, (1928–), physicist Shemuel Yeivin (1896–1982), archaeologist