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Ezer Weizman was an Israeli pilot, commander of the Israeli Air Force, Defense Minister, and the seventh President of Israel.

A Zionist and agronomist who came to the Holy Land during the Second Aliyah, Hana Meisel was an early figure in both Zionism and farming in Israel.

Caecilia Loots was a Dutch schoolteacher who sheltered and saved Jewish children during World War II.

While a young medical student in Budapest during World War II, Dr. Clara Ambrus saved the lives of many Jews.

The seventh Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir served as a military leader and politician before and after the establishment of the modern Jewish state.

Mykolas Simelis was a simple Lithuanian forester who made the ultimate sacrifice in order to save a Jewish family during the Holocaust.

Viorica Agarici was a Romanian nurse and head of the local Red Cross who protected Romanian Jews during the Holocaust.

A Japanese diplomat during World War II, Chiune Sugihara issued visas to thousands of Jewish refugees in Lithuania, saving them from the Nazis.

An inspector of the sewers in Lwow, Poland, and a Righteous Gentile, Leopold Socha used the sewage system to hide 20 Jews from the Nazis.