The British author Roald Dahl landed his RAF Hurricane at the British Mandate airstrip at Ramat David early in 1941.[4] He describes the German Jewish refugee children living there at that time in his autobiography Going Solo.[5]
On 22 May 1948 Egyptian planes attacked the airbase, damaging and destroying a number of British Royal Air Force planes.[6]
Ze'ev Herring (1910–1988), politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1974
Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth") German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper[7]
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^Dahl, Roald (2012). Going Solo. Penguin UK. ISBN 9780141965338.
^Michael Napier (2018) The Royal Air Force: A Centenary of Operations p167
^The Chutzpah That Made Dr. Ruth the Real Wonder Woman Haaretz, 6 July 2019