Interesting statistics
From 37 signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948 there were 8 persons which had been born in Ukraine – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Poltava), Rachel Cohen-Kagan (Odessa) Golda Meir (Kiev), Daniel Auster (Knyahinin, now part of Ivano-Frankovsk), Berl Repetur (Ruzhyn), Moshe Sharett (Kherson), Ben-Zion Sternberg (Czernowitz), Kalman Kahana (Brody).
28 from 37 persons were born on the territory of Russian Empire.