Aryeh Leib Yaffe (; June 5, 1876 – March 11, 1948) 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.Thirteen murdered outside Jewish Agency building In 1924, he visited Pinsk to promote the Zionist cause, and received a warm welcome from the Jewish community there.Jews of Pinsk, 1991-1941
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."Our Leaders Cannot Be Moved": A Zionist Emissary's Reports on American Jewish Response to the Holocaust in the Summer of 1943
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.Help Me Get Home, Brother, Jerusalem Post
There are streets named after him in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood, in Herzliya, and in Beersheba.
References
External links The personal papers of Leib Yaffe are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem photos of Yaffe in the YIVO collection