Aryeh Leib Frumkin was a rabbi

Rabbi

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, 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, east of Tel Aviv.According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2009, the city's population stood at 209,600. The population density is approximately...

, the first yishuv

Yishuv

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 created in the pre-state of Israel

Israel

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. He also was an author of halachic

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 texts, a teacher, and operator of a wine shop, L. Frumkin and Company.

He was born in Kelmė

Kelme

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, Lithuania

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 in 1845.

He made aliyah

Aliyah

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 to Palestine

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 during the First Aliyah

First Aliyah

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 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

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-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

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, England

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 in 1893 after an Arab

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 attack on Petah Tikva. In London's East End

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 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

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, the current Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi

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 of the United Kingdom

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