{{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Leib Yaffe | native_name = אריה לייב יפה | native_name_lang = he | image = Leib Yaffe2.jpg | caption = Leib Yaffe | birth_name = Aryeh Leib Yaffe | birth_date = {{birth date|1876|06|05}} | birth_place = Grodno, [[Belarus]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1948|03|11|1876|06|05}} | death_place = [[Jerusalem]], Mandatory Palestine | death_cause = Assassination (car bomb) | occupation = Poet, journalist, editor, Zionist leader | known_for = Director-general of [[Keren Hayesod]], editor of [[Haaretz]] | notable_works = | spouse = | children = | parents = | alma_mater = Universities in Germany | movement = [[Zionism]] | organizations = [[Haaretz]], [[Keren Hayesod]] | signature = }}
[[File:תל אביב - חיים נחמן ביאליק ולייב יפה-JNF039325.jpeg|thumb|Leib Yaffe with [[Hayim Nahman Bialik|Hayim Bialik]]]] '''Aryeh Leib Yaffe''' ({{langx|he|אריה לייב יפה }}; June 5, 1876 – March 11, 1948) was a [[Hebrew language|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 [[Zionism|Zionist]] cause, he [[Aliyah|immigrated]] to [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] in 1920, where he became chief editor of ''Haaretz''. He founded and served as director-general of [[Keren Hayesod]].<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?q=leib+yaffe&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D1GGLD_en-GBIL414IL419 Thirteen murdered outside Jewish Agency building]</ref> In 1924, he visited [[Pinsk]] to promote the Zionist cause, and received a warm welcome from the Jewish community there.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4uRTP8D7M7wC&q=leib+yaffe+bornThe&pg=PA504 Jews of Pinsk, 1991-1941]</ref>
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.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23886318?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents "Our Leaders Cannot Be Moved": A Zionist Emissary's Reports on American Jewish Response to the Holocaust in the Summer of 1943]</ref>
On March 11, 1948, he and 12 others were killed by a car bomb in the courtyard of the [[Jewish Agency]] building in [[Jerusalem]].<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=181556 Help Me Get Home, Brother], [[Jerusalem Post]]</ref>
There are streets named after him in Jerusalem's [[Talpiot]] neighborhood, in [[Herzliya]], and in [[Beersheba]].
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==External links== *The personal papers of Leib Yaffe are kept at the [http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/en/Pages/Default.aspx Central Zionist Archives] in Jerusalem * [https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/1265443 photos of Yaffe] in the [[YIVO]] collection {{Authority control}}
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