Leib Yaffe

Leib Yaffe
אריה לייב יפה
Leib Yaffe
Born	Aryeh Leib Yaffe (1876-06-05)June 5, 1876 Grodno, Belarus
Died	March 11, 1948(1948-03-11) (aged 71) Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Cause of death	Assassination (car bomb)
Nationality	Belarusian, Israeli
Alma mater	Universities in Germany
Occupation(s)	Poet, journalist, editor, Zionist leader
Organizations	Haaretz, Keren Hayesod
Known for	Director-general of Keren Hayesod, editor of Haaretz
Movement	Zionism

Aryeh Leib Yaffe (June 5, 1876 - March 11, 1948) (Hebrew: אריה לייב יפה) was a Hebrew poet, journalist and editor of Haaretz newspaper.

Leib Yaffe was born in Grodno, Belarus. He spent his university years in Germany. 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.^[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.

• The personal papers of Leib Yaffe are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem
• photos of Yaffe in the YIVO collection