Leib Yaffe

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| 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)

| nationality = Belarusian, Israeli

| occupation = Poet, journalist, editor, Zionist leader

| known_for = Director-general of Keren Hayesod, editor of Haaretz

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| alma_mater = Universities in Germany

| movement = Zionism

| organizations = Haaretz, Keren Hayesod

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Aryeh Leib Yaffe ({{langx|he|אריה לייב יפה }}; 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.[http://www.google.com/search?q=leib+yaffe&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D1GGLD_en-GBIL414IL419 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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=4uRTP8D7M7wC&q=leib+yaffe+bornThe&pg=PA504 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.[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]

On March 11, 1948, he and 12 others were killed by a car bomb in the courtyard of the Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem.[http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=181556 Help Me Get Home, Brother], Jerusalem Post

There are streets named after him in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood, in Herzliya, and in Beersheba.