Yehuda Leib Maimon

Yehuda body Maimon (Hebrew יְהוּדָה לַייב מַימוֹן, also Yehudah body HaKohen Maimon Yehuda body than fish man, born December 11, 1875 in Marculesti, Rajon Floreşti, Empire Russia, † July 10, 1962 in Israel) was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leaders of the movement of religious Zionism in Bessarabia.

Life

Maimon studied in a number of yeshivot and received his semicha by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, author of Aroch HaSchulchan (Hebrew עָרוֹךְ שֻׁלְחָן ). He was one of the founders of the Mizrachi movement in 1902. Maimon wandered into the Russian Empire, where he was arrested for Zionist activities. He was a delegate of the ninth Congress of the World Zionist Organization in 1909, and attended every Congress until the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948.

In 1913 he made an aliyah to Palestine but was expelled during the 1st World War.

He immigrated to the United States, where he organized the Mizrachi movement. Then he returned to the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine in 1919.

He became head of the HaMisrachi and Abraham Isaac Kook along with he helped HaRabanut haReschit leJisra'el (Hebrew הרַבָּנוּת הרֵאשִׁית ליִשְׂרָאֵל, Chefrabbinat ) to start. He was elected in 1935 in the Committee of the Jewish Agency, but was imprisoned by the British in 1946 in Latrun.

In 1937 he founded Mossad HaRaw Kook (Hebrew מוֹסָד הרַב קוק; Rabbi Kook Institute ) is a research institution and religious remarkable publishing house, which was named in honor of Abraham Isaac Kook.

Maimon has helped to design the Israeli Declaration of Independence, and was one of the signatories. He was on May 14, 1948 to October 8, 1951 Religion and Minister of war victims, as in the provisional government, which was used after the declaration of independence in 1948. In addition, in the first and second Cabinet.

He was engaged in Jewish publications and in 1958 was awarded the Israel Prize in Rabbinical literature.