[2] Yehuda Leib Fishman (later Maimon) was born in Mărculești, in the Soroksky Uyezd of the Bessarabia Governorate (then part of the Russian Empire, now in Moldova).

[3] Maimon studied in a number of yeshivot and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the author of the Aruch HaShulchan.

[4] In 1913, Maimon immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire), but was expelled during World War I.

[1] In 1939 he participated in the St James's Palace Conference representing the Jews in Mandatory Palestine.

After returning to Mandate Palestine (now under British control) in 1919, Maimon became leader of Mizrachi in the country and together with Abraham Isaac Kook he helped establish the Chief Rabbinate.