17 January – Modi Alon, Israeli fighter pilot who commanded Israel's first fighter squadron, scored the first aerial victory of the Israeli Air Force (died 1948)
17 March – Meir Amit, Israeli politician, general, and intelligence officer (died 2009)
18 March – Joseph Tabenkin, Israeli military commander (died 1987)
9 April – Yitzhak Navon, Fifth President of Israel (died 2015)