Pinchas Rutenberg was the man who electrified Palestine in more
ways than one. A Russian revolutionary and an assassin who plotted
the murder of Lenin and Trotsky, he escaped the Bolsheviks,
finishing up at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. There he
persuaded British leaders to grant him the concession to set up a
hydro-electric plant on the Jordan River in Palestine. Described as
a mixture of a whirl-wind and a steam-roller, he blustered his way
past determined opposition in the British Parliament and the
Zionists. His power plants were successful in providing electricity
for virtually the whole of Palestine during the 1920s and ‘30s.
It was this, more than much else, that allowed the agricultural and
industrial development of a land that had been sorely neglected for
generations. He went on to initiate Palestine Airways, the
forerunner of EL Al, and was elected leader of the Jewish
population of Palestine. In this position he was heavily involved
in negotiations with the British Government and its Mandatory
administration and spent much effort in trying to forge a peace
deal with Arab leaders including King Abdullah of Jordan. He died
in 1942, stipulating in his will that no fuss should be made of him
after his death. He was to be buried amongst the workers, no
eulogies were to be given and no streets, villages or towns were to
be named after him. Perhaps it was this that led to the paucity of
literature about him in English. This biography is an attempt to
rectify this neglect of a remarkable historic figure.
General
| Imprint: |
Matador
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
Leslie Turnberg
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80514-063-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-80514-063-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781805140634 |
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