| | Rami | Elhanan | Protagonist. A graphic artist. |
| | Francois | Mitterand | The French President. |
| | Tarek | Khalil | The boy who found the mysterious bird. |
| | Abir | Aramin | Bassam Aramin's daughter. Deceased. |
| | Areen | Aramin | Abir's sister. |
| | Bassam | Aramin | Abir's father. An activist. Protagonist. |
| | Irina | Cantor | One of the Israeli guards. |
| | Hertz | Shaul | A part-time prison guard. A student of mathematics. |
| | Sarah | Shaul | Hertzl's wife. |
| | Nurit | Elhanan | Rami's wife. |
| | Elik | Elhanan | Rami's eldest son. |
| | Salwa | Aramin | Bassam's wife. |
| | Muhammad | Aramin | Bassam's son. |
| | Rachel | Aramin | Bassam's daughter. |
| | Chaim | | Bassam's grandfather. |
| | Josef | | Bassam's uncle. |
| | Smadar | Elhanan | Rami's daughter. Deceased. |
| | Niesha | | The shopkeeper. |
| | Jorge Luis | Borges | An Argentine short story writer. |
| | Sivan | Smarka | One of the girls blown in the air alongside Smadar. |
| | Yael | Botvin | One of the boys blown in the air alongside Smadar. |
| | Rami | Kozashvili | A clerk at Yehuda Bazaar. |
| | Eliahu | Markowitz | A book lover. |
| | Guy | Elhanan | Rami's son. |
| | Yigal | Elhanan | Rami's son. |
| | Simone | Lagi | The Italian artist. |
| | Hassan | Al-Rammah | The 13th-century Syrian chemist. |
| | Moti | Richler | One of the bombing survivors. |
| | Alona | Richler | Moti's wife. |
| | Phillippe | Petit | French high-wire artist. |
| | Matti | Peled | Smadar's grandfather. A general. |
| | Uri | Esterhuzt | A forensic scientist from Tel Aviv. |
| | Ho Chi | Minh | The Vietnamese official. |
| | Muammar | Gaddafi | The colonel. |
| | Charles | Sweeney | The commander of the bombing operation. |
| | Mahmoud | Darwish | A poet. |
| | Tamar | Ben Ami | A Jewish dancer. Darwish's lover. |
| | Richard Francis | Burton | The 19th-century explorer. |
| | Salman | Rushdie | The Indian novelist. |
| | Godfrey Of | Bouilon | The defender of the holy sepulchure. |
| | Marko | Kovacecic | A teetotaler. |
| | King | Hezekiah | The 700 B.C. King of Jerusalem. |
| | Mark | Kovack | One of the settler traitors. |
| | Paul | Hartingtone | The army corporal. |
| | Mona Akilah | Saqqaf | One of the most successful falcon hood makers. |
| | Yitzak | Elhanan | Smadar's grandfather. |
| | Karl | Rahn | The SS first lieutenant. |
| | Hans | Krasa | A camp resident. The children's opera writer. |
| | Kurt | Gerron | The Nazi propaganda film director. |
| | Anton | Burger | The camp commandant. |
| | Elon | Musk | The owner of SpaceX. |
| | Sinead | O'Connor | A singer. |
| | Muhammad | Ali | A professional bore. |
| | John | Kerry | The U.S. Senator. |
| | Simeon | | The Syrian's saint. |
| | Jose | Ruiz-Picasso | The Spanish artist. |
| | Yasser | Arafat | The chairman of Palestine liberation organization. |
| | Teddy | Kollek | The Mayor of Jerusalem. |
| | Abdullah | El-Tell | The green-line commander. |
| | Moshe | Dayan | The green-line commander. |
| | Jerzy | Kosinski | The author of Holocaust. |
| | Sister | Lucretia | A Brazilian nun. |
| | George | Mitchell | An American Senator. |
| | Heather | | Mitchell's wife. |
| | Andrew | | Mitchell's son. |
| | Munib | Al-Masri | The richest man in Palestine. |
| | Youssef | Shouli | One of the Palestinian suicide bombers. |
| | Rafael | Schacter | The Czech composer and pianist. |
| | Farrid | Ud-Din Attar | A Persian poet. |
| | Shimon | Peres | The Israeli President. |
| | Arik | Frankenthal | A young Israeli soldier. Yitzhak's son. |
| | Yitzhak | Frankenthal | Arik's father. |
| | Araab | Aramin | Bassam's first child. |
| | F.J.H. | Kracke | The U.S. customs appraiser. |
| | Hiba | Aramin | Bassam's daughter. |
| | Bashar | Sawalha | A Palestinian suicide bomber. |
| | Tawfiq | Yassine | A Palestinian suicide bomber. |
| | Meir | | One of the guards. |
| | Yishai | | Rami's grandchild. |
| | Judeh | | Rami's grandchild. |
| | Christopher | Costigin | The Irish priest. An
amateur geographer. |
| | Sylvester | Costigin | Christopher's father. |
| | Catherine | Costigin | Christopher's mother. |
| | Muhammad | Al-Dhib | The shepherd who discovered the scroll. |
| | John | Trever | A biblical scholar. |
| | William | Albright | John's colleague. |
| | John | Nicolayson | The reverend. |
| | William | Lynch | The explorer. |
| | Daniella | | Smadar's friend. |
| | Mahatma | Gandhi | The leader of the nationalist movement. |
| | John | Cage | An American composer. |
| | Robert | Rauschenberg | Cage's friend. A painter. |
| | David | Tudor | A pianist. |
| | Michael | Sharia | An ambulance driver. |
| | Pablo | Escobar | The Columbian drug lord. |
| | Jhon Jairo | Arias-Tascon | Pablo Escobar's most
notorious killer. |
| | Sigalit | Landau | An artist from Jerusalem. |
| | Augusto | Pinochet | A Chilean army general. |
| | Eliezer | Ben-Yehuda | A Hebrew lexicographer and newspaper editor. |
| | Dalia | El-Fahum | Palestinian doctoral student. |
| | Vittorio | Arrigoni | An Italian activist. |
| | Zev | | Smadar's friend. |
| | Henry | Shrapnel | A lieutenant in British royal artillery. |
| | John | Lock | An English philosopher. |
| | Judy | Blanc | An older activist. |
| | Izzat | Ghazzawi | A Palestinian writer. |
| | Rami | Ghazzawi | Izzat's son. Deceased. |
| | Mikhail-Timofeyevich | Kalashinov | A soviet lieutenant general. A gun maker. |
| | Moshe | Barazani | A Jewish fighter. |
| | Meir | Feinstein | A Jewish fighter. |
| | Cheryl | Hanin-Bentov | The honey pot who lured Vanunu to his capture. |
| | Mordechai | Vanunu | The man who revealed Israel's secret. |
| | David | Lean | The filmmaker. |
| | Antonin | Artaud | The French writer. |
| | Sonam | Wangchuk | A Ladakhi engineer. |
| | Dobnik | | The warden. |
| | Goethe | | The German writer. |
| | Denis Michael | Rohan | An Australian tourist. |
| | Minwer | Al-Meheid | Bedouin civil engineer. |
| | Etgar | Keret | The script author. |
| | Assa | Kasher | A well-known Israeli ethics philosopher. |
| | Julie | | Yael's mother. |
| | Maimonides | | The 20th-century Jewish philosopher. |
| | Y.A | | The terrorist. |
| | Abu | Abdullah | Bassam's grandfather. |
| | Anna | | Guy's daughter. Rami's granddaughter. |
| | Wael | Zuaiter | A poet and translator. Murdered. |
| | Fatah | | Zuaiter's colleague. |
| | Janet | Venn-Brown | An Australian artist. |
| | Emily | Jacir | A Palestinian artist. |
| | Viktor | Ullman | The opera composer. |
| | Peter | Kien | The writer of the Emperor of Atlantis. An inmate. |
| | Emil | Utitz | The director of the camp library. |
