Akiva Jacob Ettinger (Hebrew: עקיבא יעקב אטינגר; 1872 - 1945) was an agronomist and an early Zionist leader who advocated for settlement in Ottoman Palestine.
[3] Ettinger was born in Vitebsk, Belorussia and was a descendant of Akiva Eiger.
In 1902, the Odessa Committee of Hovevei Zion sent Ettinger and Ahad HaAm to look into the condition of Jewish settlements.
[1] In 1918, Ettinger served as an advisor on settlement issues during the Balfour Declaration negotiations in London and wrote the memorandum, “Palestine after the War: Proposals for Administration and Development.”[1] After relocating to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1918, Ettinger led the Zionist Organization's Department of Agricultural Settlement until 1924.
Beginning in 1919, he established the village Kiryat Anavim to serve as a model for hill settlements.