This list of Jewish travelers to the Holy Land is based on Elkan Nathan Adler, Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages, Dover Publications, Inc., NY 1987.
- Ninth century
- Isaac, interpreter to ambassadors sent by Charlemagne to Harun-ar-Rashid
- Jacob ibn Tarik (Aben Scheara), carried astronomical books from Ceylon to Baghdad
- Joseph of Spain, introduced the Western world to Arabic numerals from India
- Eldad the Danite, claimed to be from the lost tribe of Dan
- Tenth century
- Rabbi Chisdai ibn Shaprut, sent by Jews to inquire about the Khozars in Crimea
- Rabbi Judah HaLevi, moved to Palestine
- Saadya Gaon, visited Palestine
- Rabbi Jacob ben Nethaniel ha Cohen, traveled in Egypt and Palestine during the Crusades
- Twelfth century
- Abraham ibn Ezra, alluded to his travels in his works
- Benjamin of Tudela, described in detail the Jewish communities he visited
- Petachia of Ratisbon, gives us important information about Russia and the Karaite Jews
- Judah al-Harizi, satirical poet
- Thirteenth century
- Rabbi Samuel ben Samson of Sens, wrote a guide to the graves of Jewish saints and Rabbis
- Pilgrimage of three hundred French and English Rabbis to Palestine
- Rabbi Jacob, sent to Palestine and Iraq to collect funds for a Paris Rabbinic college
- Nachmanides, visited Jerusalem and found only one Jewish resident
- Fourteenth century
- Estori Farchi, settled in Beth Shean and wrote the first scientific description of Palestine
- Isaac ben Joseph ibn Chelo, Kabbalist who settled in Jerusalem
- Jafuda Crescas, mapped sea and land routes
- Fifteenth century
- Abraham Zacuto, wrote a nautical almanac which was used by Columbus
- Rabbi Isaac ibn Alfara of Malaga, describes the chief Jewish tombs in Palestine
- Rabbi Elijah of Ferrara, describes life in Egypt and Palestine
- Rabbi Meshullam of Volterra
- Rabbi Obadiah of Bertinoro
- Sixteenth century
- Moses ben Joseph Hamon, a physician on the staff of Sultan Suleiman recorded information about Syria
- Anonymous Venetian Rabbi, traveled to Palestine and back
- David Reubeni, offered the Christians help in overthrowing the Turks and hoped to regain Palestine for the Jews
- German settler in Hebron, compiled a list of the tombs of the Patriarchs
- Gershon of Scarmela, went on a pilgrimage to Palestine and wrote “Tombs of the Righteous”
- Elijah of Pesaro, intended to settle in Palestine but was delayed in Cyprus by a plague in the East
- Joseph del Medigo, doctor from Crete who traveled to Egypt, Constantinople, Poland, Russia and Lithuania
- Pedro Texeira, a Marrano who was probably the first Jew to travel all around the world
- Seventeenth century
- Samuel Jemsel, Karaite who traveled to Palestine with a group of a hundred Jewish pilgrims
- Eighteenth century
- Haim David Azulai, Jerusalem-born Kabbalist who traveled to Europe to raise funds for the Hebron Rabbinical Seminary