Leib Yaffe
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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.[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 Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem.[4]
There are streets named after him in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood, in Herzliya, and in Beersheba.
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[edit]- The personal papers of Leib Yaffe are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem
- photos of Yaffe in the YIVO collection