Draft:Eliezer Lipa Jaffe

Eliezer Lipa Yaffe (Hebrew: אליעזר לִיפָּא יָפֶה; January 10, 1882 -

September 10, 1942) was a Zionist activist, one of the leaders of the agricultural settlement in Israel, a member of the first groups in Degania, a planner of the worker's moshav, a founder of Nahalal, and the initiator and first director of Tnuva.

Early Life
Eliezer Lipa Yaffe was born in Yanovka village in the Khotyn district of the Region of Serbia in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). His family had a rabbinic lineage, including Rabbi Mordechai Yoffe, a leading halakha authority who lived in Prague in the 17th century. Yaffe's father Reuven was a distinguished Talmid Chakham who made a living as an accountant. His mother was Chaya Sarah. Yaffe was raised in the Jewish tradition and from a young age studied Talmud.