Leib Yaffe

A life-long champion of the Zionist cause, he immigrated to Palestine in 1920, where he became chief editor of Haaretz.

[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.

Leib Yaffe with Hayim Bialik