Aryeh Leib Frumkin

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Aryeh Leib Frumkin

Aryeh Leib Frumkin (; 1845–1916) was a rabbi

Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
, Zionist, a founder and pioneer of Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
, the first yishuv

Yishuv

Yishuv or Ha-Yishuv A distinction is sometimes drawn between the Old Yishuv and the New Yishuv.The Old Yishuv refers to all the Jews living there before the aliyah of 1882 by the Zionist movement....
created in the pre-state of Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. He also was an author of halachic

Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
texts, a teacher, and operator of a wine shop, L. Frumkin and Company.

He was Born in Kelme

Kelme

Kelme is a city in central Lithuania. It has a population of around 11,000 and is the administrative center of the Kelme district municipality....
, Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
in 1845.

He made aliyah

Aliyah

Aliyah refers to Jewish immigration to Greater Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is referred to as Yerida ....
to Palestine

Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
during the First Aliyah

First Aliyah

The First Aliyah was the first modern widespread wave of Zionism aliyah. Jews who migrated to Palestine in this wave came mostly from Eastern Europe and from Yemen....
in 1883. While there he founded the settlement of Petah Tikva in which he built the first house there and helped to drain the malaria

Malaria

Malaria is a Vector -borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. It is widespread in Tropics and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa....
-ridden swamps His planting of the first tree there is emblazoned on the seal of the municipality and there is a street named after him

He moved to London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England

England

Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
attack on Petah Tikva.

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Aryeh Leib Frumkin (; 1845–1916) was a rabbi

Rabbi

Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
, the first yishuv

Yishuv

Israel

Halakha

Kelme

Kelme is a city in central Lithuania. It has a population of around 11,000 and is the administrative center of the Kelme district municipality....
, Lithuania

Lithuania

Aliyah

Aliyah refers to Jewish immigration to Greater Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is referred to as Yerida ....
to Palestine

Palestine

First Aliyah

Malaria

London

England

Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
attack on Petah Tikva. In London's East End

East End of London

The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is the area of London, England, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames, although it is not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries....
he operated a family wine shop.

After returning to Petah Tikvah he died and was buried there in 1916.

He was the great-grandfather of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Jonathan Sacks

Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks is the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom. His official title is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Nations....
, the current Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities....
of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.