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Leib Yaffe
אריה לייב יפה
Leib Yaffe
BornAryeh Leib Yaffe
(1876-06-05)June 5, 1876
Grodno, Belarus
DiedMarch 11, 1948(1948-03-11) (aged 71)
Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Cause of deathAssassination (car bomb)
NationalityBelarusian, Israeli
Alma materUniversities in Germany
Occupation(s)Poet, journalist, editor, Zionist leader
OrganizationsHaaretz, Keren Hayesod
Known forDirector-general of Keren Hayesod, editor of Haaretz
MovementZionism
Leib Yaffe with Hayim Bialik

Aryeh Leib Yaffe (June 5, 1876 - March 11, 1948) (Hebrew: אריה לייב יפה) was a Hebrew poet, journalist and editor of Haaretz newspaper.

Leib Yaffe was born in Grodno, Belarus. He spent his university years in Germany. A life-long champion of the Zionist cause, he immigrated to Palestine in 1920, where he became chief editor of Haaretz. He founded and served as director-general of Keren Hayesod. In 1924, he visited Pinsk to promote the Zionist cause and received a warm welcome from the Jewish community.

In 1942, he was sent on a mission to South America, and in December of that year he traveled to United States as an emissary of the Zionist Movement.

On March 11, 1948, he and 12 others were killed by a car bomb in the courtyard of the Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem.

There are streets named after him in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood, in Herzliya, and in Beersheba.

References

  1. Thirteen murdered outside Jewish Agency building
  2. Jews of Pinsk, 1991-1941
  3. "Our Leaders Cannot Be Moved": A Zionist Emissary's Reports on American Jewish Response to the Holocaust in the Summer of 1943
  4. Help Me Get Home, Brother, Jerusalem Post

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