2 minHistoryYaakov Mazeh1859–1924. Rabbi Yaakov Mazeh served as the government-appointed chief rabbi of Moscow. Born in 1859 in Mogilev, Belarus, Mazeh's family...
3 minHistoryCharles Netter1826 - 1882. Charles Netter was a French businessman and a founding member of the Alliance Israelite Universelle. He is also known for...
2 minHistoryAharon Chelouche1840 - 1920. Aharon Chelouche was an Algerian Sephardic Jew known for his roles as a landowner, jeweler, and money changer in Jaffa's...
2 minHistoryAlfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett1868 - 1945. Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, was a British industrialist, politician, and Zionist activist in the late 19th and early...
3 minHistoryBiluAcronym: Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Venelkha Translation: "House of Jacob, come, let us walk" Biblical Source: Isaiah 2:5. In the early 1880s,...
3 minHistoryHaim Amzlag1828 - 1916. Haim Nissim Amzlag was a Jewish businessman and community leader during the Yishuv period. He was born in Gibraltar to a...
4 minPoliticsBerl Katznelson1887 - 1944. Berl Katznelson was one of the intellectual founders of Socialist Zionism, instrumental in the establishment of the modern...
1 minPoliticsHapoel Hatzair (The Young Worker)Ha'poel Hatzair is the first Zionist socialist party founded in the Land of Israel in 1905 by Russian Jewish immigrants. The party's...
2 minHistoryZalman David Levontin1856 - 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...
2 minHistoryMenachem Ussishkin1863 - 1941. Menachem Ussishkin was a Zionist leader born in Belarus. Starting in 1878, he developed a passion for reading contemporary...
1 minHistoryLeon Pinsker1821 - 1891. Leon Pinsker, born in Poland in 1839, was a Jewish and Zionist leader, physician, and writer during the 19th century. He...