Menachem Ussishkin

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Menachem Ussishkin
מנחם אוסישקין
Born
Menachem Ussishkin

August 14, 1863
Dubrowna, Belarus
DiedOctober 2, 1941 (aged 78)
Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
OccupationPresident of the Jewish National Fund
Known forSecretary of the First Zionist Congress

Menachem Ussishkin (Russian: Авраам Менахем Мендл Усышкин Avraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, Hebrew: מנחם אוסישקין; August 14, 1863 – October 2, 1941) was a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund.

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