Leib Yaffe

Aryeh Leib Yaffe (born 1876) (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.

References

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