Leib Yaffe
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Aryeh Leib Yaffe (Hebrew: אריה לייב יפה; June 5, 1876 – March 11, 1948) was a Hebrew poet, journalist and editor of Haaretz newspaper.
June 5, 1876
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| Born | Aryeh Leib Yaffe June 5, 1876 Grodno, Belarus |
| Died | March 11, 1948 (aged 71) Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
| Cause of death | Assassination (car bomb) |
| Alma mater | Universities in Germany |
| Occupations | Poet, journalist, editor, Zionist leader |
| Organizations | Haaretz, Keren Hayesod |
| Known for | Director-general of Keren Hayesod, editor of Haaretz |
| Movement | Zionism |
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 there.[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.