Leib Yaffe

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. In 1924, he visited Pinsk to promote the Zionist cause, and received a warm welcome from the Jewish community there. 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. On March 11, 1948, he and 12 others were killed by a car bomb detonated by a Palestinian Arab—with Arab snipers then firing upon victims and rescuers—in the courtyard of the Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem. There are streets named after him in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood, in Herzliya, and in Beersheba.

• Name — Leib Yaffe • Native Name — אריה לייב יפה • Birth Name — Aryeh Leib Yaffe • Born — 5 June 1876 • Birthplace — Grodno, Belarus • Died — 11 March 1948 • Place of death — Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine • Death Cause — Assassination (car bomb) • Occupation — Poet, journalist, editor, Zionist leader • Known for — Director-general of Keren Hayesod, editor of Haaretz • Education — Universities in Germany • Movement — Zionism • Organizations — Haaretz, Keren Hayesod • Illustration — Leib Yaffe with Hayim Bialik

Leib Yaffe is recorded with the occupation opinion journalist. Recorded as journalist, translator, poet, zionist and writer.