Leib Yaffe

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Leib Yaffe

Leib Yaffe (Hebrew: אריה לייב יפה ‎) was a Hebrew poet, journalist and editor of Haaretz newspaper.

Leib Yaffe was born in Grodno, Belarus. A lifelong champion of the Zionist cause, he immigrated to Palestine, where he became chief editor of Haaretz. He served as director-general of Keren Hayesod until March 11, 1948, when he and 12 others were killed by a car bomb in the courtyard of the Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem.^[1]

A street is named after him in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood, as well as in Herzliya, Israel.

References

↑ Help Me Get Home, Brother, Jerusalem Post

External links

The personal papers of Leib Yaffe are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem

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Name	Yaffe, Leib
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Short description	Newspaper editor
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Date of death	1948
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