Zionist activist, Israeli politician, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence and the country's first Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister and member of the first and second Knesset. He was born in Minsk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), and attended a Heder and high school in Lubitch. He joined the Socialist Zionist Party in 1905, and was one of the founders of the Youth of Zion - Renewal movement in 1908, elected secretary of its Minsk Region branch in 1912. He also helped found the Youth of Zion movement in Russia in 1912 and was a member of its central committee. He was a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919, and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1920, and was involved in merging Youth of Zion with Hapoel Hatzair to form Hitachdut, and following his participation in the Conference of the Zionist Federation in London, was elected to the Zionist Executive Committee. A short while later he was sent to Berlin to run Hitachdut's world office. The Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot built in 1953, the Kiryat Eliezer suburb of Netanya and the Eliezer neighbourhood of Kfar Sava were named in his honour.
Zionist activist, Israeli politician, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence and the country's first Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister and member of the first and second Knesset. He was born in Minsk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), and attended a Heder and high school in Lubitch. He joined the Socialist Zionist Party in 1905, and was one of the founders of the Youth of Zion - Renewal movement in 1908, elected secretary of its Minsk Region branch in 1912. He also helped found the Youth of Zion movement in Russia in 1912 and was a member of its central committee. He was a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919, and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1920, and was involved in merging Youth of Zion with Hapoel Hatzair to form Hitachdut, and following his participation in the Conference of the Zionist Federation in London, was elected to the Zionist Executive Committee. A short while later he was sent to Berlin to run Hitachdut's world office. The Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot built in 1953, the Kiryat Eliezer suburb of Netanya and the Eliezer neighbourhood of Kfar Sava were named in his honour.
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