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