1859–1924. Rabbi Yaakov Mazeh served as the government-appointed chief rabbi of Moscow. Born in 1859 in Mogilev, Belarus, Mazeh's family...

1826 - 1882. Charles Netter was a French businessman and a founding member of the Alliance Israelite Universelle. He is also known for...

1840 - 1920. Aharon Chelouche was an Algerian Sephardic Jew known for his roles as a landowner, jeweler, and money changer in Jaffa's...

1868 - 1945. Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, was a British industrialist, politician, and Zionist activist in the late 19th and early...

Acronym: Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Venelkha Translation: "House of Jacob, come, let us walk" Biblical Source: Isaiah 2:5. In the early 1880s,...

1828 - 1916. Haim Nissim Amzlag was a Jewish businessman and community leader during the Yishuv period. He was born in Gibraltar to a...

1887 - 1944. Berl Katznelson was one of the intellectual founders of Socialist Zionism, instrumental in the establishment of the modern...

Ha'poel Hatzair is the first Zionist socialist party founded in the Land of Israel in 1905 by Russian Jewish immigrants. The party's...

1856 - 1940. Born in Belarus to a Chabad Hasidic family, Zalman David Levontin was one of the pioneers of the first aliyah. He was one of...

1863 - 1941. Menachem Ussishkin was a Zionist leader born in Belarus. Starting in 1878, he developed a passion for reading contemporary...

1821 - 1891. Leon Pinsker, born in Poland in 1839, was a prominent 19th-century Jewish leader, Zionist pioneer, physician, and writer. He...