Leib Yaffe
Aryeh Leib Yaffe (born 1876) (
Hebrew poet, journalist and editor of Haaretz
newspaper.
Leib Yaffe was born in Grodno,
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.[1] In 1924, he visited Pinsk to promote the Zionist cause and received a warm welcome from the Jewish community.[2]
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.[3]
On March 11, 1948, he and 12 others were killed by a car bomb in the courtyard of the
There are streets named after him in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood, in Herzliya, and in Beersheba.
References
External links
- The personal papers of Leib Yaffe are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem
- photos of Yaffe in the YIVO collection
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