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	Pinhas Rutenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pinhas Rutenberg (February 5, 1879 — January 3, 1942; Russian: Пётр Моисеевич Рутенберг, Pyotr Moiseyevich Rutenberg; Hebrew: פנחס רוטנברג) was a prominent engineer and a businessman, a Russian socialist and a Zionist leader.
		Rutenberg also participated in establishing the Hagana, a nucleus of the future Israel Defense Forces, and served as a President of the Jewish National Council.
		Pinhas Rutenberg was born in the town of Romny, north of Poltava, in Ukraine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pinhas_Rutenberg (1151 words)

	Pinchas Rutenberg (1879 - 1942)
		Pinchas Rutenberg was born on February 5, 1879 in Romni, Russia.
		Rutenberg's main dream was the possibility of exploiting the waters of the Jordan river to produce electricity and thus help build a modern, industrialised country, while ensuring rural development.
		Although Rutenberg devoted most of his life economic, rather than political affairs, he is nevertheless considered a Zionist leader for his vision and capacity to lay foundations for the future, and because he was able to unite important economic forces, in order to implement these major projects.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/BIOS/ruten.html (677 words)

	Zionism \| The First 120 Years 1882-2002
		He meets with Pinhas Rutenberg, a Russian-Jewish engineer and a leading revolutionary in his country, in Brindesi, Italy.
		Rutenberg leaves for the United States in order to advance matters.
		The beginning of the NILI underground movement (its name is chosen later), whose founders are Aaron Aaronsohn and Avshalom Feinberg, together with a small number of settlement members.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/120/4.html (3202 words)

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		Rutenberg was the man who, in 1905, piloted the revolutionary activities of the notorious Father Gapon and then sat in judgment and brought about his execution.
		That the Jew Rutenberg "piloted the revolutionary activities of the notorious Father Gapon, then sat in judgment and brought about his execution," is not mentioned by historian Chamberlin, who was correspondent for 12 years in Russia for the leftist‑oriented Christian Science Monitor, and later wrote for the Jewish‑line "Anti‑Communist" Human Events.
		Rutenberg was chose in 1937 as one of the 120 leading Jews of the world, along with Litvinov (Finkelstein), the Soviet Commissar, and Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, head of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
	www.israelect.com /reference/WillieMartin/J-6.htm (16757 words)

	Israel Studies--An Attempt to Americanize the Yishuv: Judah L. Magnes in Mandatory Palestine
		The industrialist Pinhas Rutenberg, who became the head of the Va'ad Leumi [National Council of the Yishuv] in 1929, demonstrated some interest in Magnes's ideas.
		Rutenberg found the bi-national plan "sound in essence," but believed it premature, as neither Jews nor Arabs were ready to work together.
		Pinhas Rutenberg was asked to develop one with the British Colonial Office.
	www.iupress.indiana.edu /journals/israel/iss5-1.html (8774 words)

	Pay No Attention to the Jews Behind the Curtain—the Iron Curtain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On Sunday, Jan. 22, 1905, thousands of workers and their families were led by trade union leader Father Gapon, known as the "little Father," in a peaceful protest in front of the seat of the Imperial government, the Winter Palace.
		Alexandar Parvus and his Jewish comrade Peter Pinhas (actually Rutenberg) took advantage of the protest by placing snipers in the trees of a park across from the Palace, ordering the men to shoot at Palace guards.
		The guards had no choice but to shoot back, and in the confusion and crossfire, 150 to 200 were killed.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /printer.php?id=1744 (3586 words)

	Zionism And Its Impact
		In addition to making these land purchases, prominent Jewish businessmen won monopolistic concessions from the British government that gave the Zionist movement an important role in the development of Palestine's natural resources.
		In 1921, Pinhas Rutenberg's Palestine Electric Company acquired the right to electrify all of Palestine except Jerusalem.
		Moshe Novomeysky received the concession to develop the minerals in the Dead Sea in 1927.
	www.wrmea.com /html/focus.htm (6072 words)

	Rutenberg - Plymouth City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		CharitiesDirect.com can provide a detailed profile of Pinhas Rutenberg Educational Trust, or any other charity listed, featuring their full accounts, details of activities and named trustees and executives.Faxed to you inside an hour.
		Four Last Songs are paintings created by the New York artist, Brian Rutenberg, and are mounted here with his permission.
		Home builder shaped bay area Charles Rutenberg had a knack for development, even if he fell on hard times later in life.
	www.plymouthcity.com /Search/Rutenberg.html (624 words)

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		It was embedded in the Zionist perception that the 'Land of Israel is a Jewish birthright' and belongs exclusively to the Jewish people as a whole, and, consequently, that Palestinians are 'strangers' who either should accept Jewish sovereignty over the land or depart.
		Nearly all the founding fathers of Israel advocated transfer in one form or another, including Theodor Herzl, Leon Motzkin, Nahman Syrkin, Menahem Ussishkin, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Tabenkin, Avraham Granovsky, Israel Zangwill, Yitzhak Ben-Tzvi, Pinhas Rutenberg, Aaron Aaronson, Zeev Jabotinsky, and Berl Katznelson.
		However, the 'transfer' solution became central to Zionist strategy in the period between 1936 and 1948.
	www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/76688/723385 (1455 words)

	Middle East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1930, against the background of the 1929 disturbances in Palestine, Weizmann, then President of both the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency Executive, actively began promoting ideas of Arab transfer in private discussions with British officials and ministers.
		In the same year Weizmann and Pinhas Rutenberg, who was both chairman of the Yishuv’s National Council and a member of the Jewish Agency Executive, presented British Colonial Secretary Lord Passfield with an official, albeit secret, proposal for the transfer of Palestinian peasants to Transjordan.
		This scheme proposed that a loan of one million Palestinian pounds be raised from Jewish financial sources for the resettlement operation.
	www.abbc2.com /historia/zionism/masalha.html (2168 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Growing Up Anglo-Jewish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		...An engineer, Rutenberg had also been a leading member of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary party...
		...The founder and manager of the corporation, Pinhas Rutenberg, was one of the most interesting personalities involved in building up the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine...
		...In Palestine, Rutenberg's work on hydroelectric power, beginning in the early 20's, had helped to transform the economy...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V111I6P32-1.htm (4898 words)

	Life - Chapter 6
		On the River Jordan, half an hour's journey south of the Sea of Galilee, steady progress is now being made in the construction of a great hydro-electric power station which will usher in a new economic era for the Holy Land.
		Thus under the supervising genius of Pinhas Rutenberg the storied river of Bible times is to be made to produce 300,000 horsepower of energy for new Palestine's farms, homes and factories.
		Early in the spring of 1925 a steamship company, formed by Jews in the city of New York, began the operation of a steamship line from New York direct to Palestine.
	www.strictlygenteel.co.uk /life/life6.html (5467 words)

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		On 10 November 1936, at a meeting of the Zionist General Council, held in preparation for the arrival of the Peel Commission, Ben-Gurion made a long statement which included his same transfer proposal.(75)
		Nearly seven months later, in May 1937, Ben-Gurion had a meeting with some colleagues amongst whom was included Pinhas Rutenberg.
		On the political level, he had co-operated in the 1930s with a number of other Jewish personalities, including Magnes and Smilensky (two strong opponents of Arab transfer), in search of a programme for Arab-Jewish understanding.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/7854/transfer04.html (4790 words)

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		(}{\plain\f12\fs20\super\cf2 5}{\plain\f8\fs20\cf2)\par}} {\pard\qj\fi520\li-89\ri60{\plain\f8\fs20\cf2 Nearly seven months later, in May 1937, Ben-Gurion had a meeting with some colleagues amongst whom was included Pinhas Rutenberg.
		Rutenberg was a Russo-Jewish electrical engineer and founder and director of the Palestine Electric Company, who had set up a hydro-electric power station in Transjordan to harness the waters of the upper Jordan and the Yarmuk rivers.
		(}{\plain\f12\fs20\super\cf2 7}{\plain\f8\fs20\cf2) However, in the interval between these two meetings, Ben-Gurion again mentioned this proposal, not this time in Rutenberg's presence and without this time including the need for Arab consent!
	www.solargeneral.com /library/arabtransfer.rtf (8227 words)

	Jewish Criticism of Zionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Judah L. Magnes, who was president of Hebrew University in Jerusalem during the Palestine Mandate, was also opposed to the creation of a Jewish state.
		In 1936, Magnes, together with other leading Jewish Palestinian humanists, including Pinhas Rutenberg and Moshe Smilanski, advocated the creation of a bi-national state.
		These prominent Jewish intellectuals then founded the Ihud (Union) group to oppose the partition of Palestine.
	www.mepc.org /public_asp/journal/9012_corrigan.asp (11194 words)

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