Gariy Haim (real surname — Blumberg) (1883, Dvinsk — 1940) — teacher, writer. From 1906 he taught in Palestine at the “Herzliya” school in Tel Aviv. One of the first writers to resume literary work in Hebrew. He founded the amateur troupe “Hovevei ha-bama ha-ivrit”, in which he was director, actor, and translator of plays. He participated in the publication of periodicals in Hebrew in Russia and Palestine, edited books on holidays — “Sefer ha-khanuka” (1937) and “Sefer tevet, shevat, adar” (1941). His publications and stories are collected in the anthology “Kitvey Haim Garari” (vols. 1 and 2, 1941–1942). He died in Palestine.

His wife Yehudit (1885 — ?) was a teacher and public activist. She was a daughter of A. Eisenberg, one of the founders of Rehovot. In 1903 she founded a kindergarten in Rehovot where Hebrew was the language of instruction. She also taught at the “Herzliya” school and in the women's department of the Levinsky Seminary in Tel Aviv, and was director of her own model school. She published articles in the press and authored several books.

His son Itzhar (1908, Jaffa — ?) was a politician and activist. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Sorbonne (Paris). From 1948 he was one of the founders of the Israeli Progressive Party. From 1947 to 1974 he was elected to the Knesset from the Progressive Party (later the Liberal Party and the Independent Liberals Party). In 1968 he joined the Ma'mad party. He was a founder of the Israeli Foreign Policy Association. From 1954 to 1967 he was a member of Israel's delegation to the UN.