# Leib Yaffe

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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) Alma mater Universities in Germany Occupations Poet, journalist, editor, Zionist leader Organizations Haaretz, Keren Hayesod Known for Director-general of Keren Hayesod, editor of Haaretz Movement Zionism

Leib Yaffe with [Hayim Bialik](/source/Hayim_Nahman_Bialik)

**Aryeh Leib Yaffe** ([Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language): אריה לייב יפה; June 5, 1876 – March 11, 1948) was a [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language) poet, journalist and editor of *[Haaretz](/source/Haaretz)* newspaper.

Leib Yaffe was born in [Grodno](/source/Grodno), [Belarus](/source/Belarus). He spent his university years in Germany. A life-long champion of the [Zionist](/source/Zionism) cause, he [immigrated](/source/Aliyah) to [Palestine](/source/Palestine_(region)) in 1920, where he became chief editor of *Haaretz*. He founded and served as director-general of [Keren Hayesod](/source/Keren_Hayesod).[1] In 1924, he visited [Pinsk](/source/Pinsk) to promote the Zionist cause, and received a warm welcome from the Jewish community there.[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](/source/Jewish_Agency) building in [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem).[4]

There are streets named after him in Jerusalem's [Talpiot](/source/Talpiot) neighborhood, in [Herzliya](/source/Herzliya), and in [Beersheba](/source/Beersheba).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Thirteen murdered outside Jewish Agency building](http://www.google.com/search?q=leib+yaffe&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D1GGLD_en-GBIL414IL419)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Jews of Pinsk, 1991-1941](https://books.google.com/books?id=4uRTP8D7M7wC&q=leib+yaffe+bornThe&pg=PA504)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Our Leaders Cannot Be Moved": A Zionist Emissary's Reports on American Jewish Response to the Holocaust in the Summer of 1943](https://www.jstor.org/stable/23886318?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Help Me Get Home, Brother](https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=181556), [Jerusalem Post](/source/Jerusalem_Post)

## External links

- The personal papers of Leib Yaffe are kept at the [Central Zionist Archives](http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/en/Pages/Default.aspx) in Jerusalem

- [photos of Yaffe](https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/1265443) in the [YIVO](/source/YIVO) collection

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