The British author Roald Dahl landed his RAF Hurricane at the British Mandate airstrip at Ramat David early in 1941. He describes the German Jewish refugee children living there at that time in his autobiography Going Solo.
On 22 May 1948 Egyptian planes attacked the airbase, damaging and destroying a number of British Royal Air Force planes.
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