Eliezer Livneh
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| Date of birth | 2 December 1902 |
| Place of birth | Łódź, Russian Empire |
| Year of aliyah | 1920 |
| Date of death | 1 March 1975 (aged 72) |
| Place of death | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Knessets | 1, 2 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1955 | Mapai |
Eliezer Livneh (Hebrew: אליעזר ליבנה (born 2 December 1902, died 1 March 1975) was a Zionist activist, journalist, publicist and Israeli politician. He is known for his activism against nuclear proliferation of the Middle East and for his endorsement of the Greater Israel cause.
Eliezer Liebenstein (later Livneh) was born in Łódź in the Russian Empire (now Poland) in 1902, but his family moved to Rostov-on-Don at the break of World War I. In 1920 he immigrated to Palestine and worked as road builder. He then joined Ahdut HaAvoda and in 1923 he was elected Secretary of the Haifa Workers Council. That year he also joined Kibbutz Ein Harod, of which he would be a member for many years. He was the Haavara emissary to Germany from 1928 to 1930 and again from 1933 to 1935, seeking to encourage immigration to Palestine and transfer of assets. His experiences of the Nazi rise to power made him an opponent of totalitarian regimes of any kind, including that of Joseph Stalin, which was popular among many in the workers movement. Between 1937 and 1939 he studied in England.
After the outbreak of World War II he became a propagandist for the Haganah and Mapai and was the founder (with Galili and Gershon Rivlin) and editor of Maarachot (meaning both "systems" and "military campaigns"), a newspaper on military affairs, in 1939.
In 1940 he published another newspaper, Ashnav ("porthole") with Berl Katznelson. Edited by Livneh, it became the voice of the "activist" faction of Mapai for seven years until it went too far by publishing an obituary listing the names of Dov Gruner, Yehiel Drezner and Eliezer Kashani—Irgun members who became Olei Hagardom in April 1947—alongside Haganah casualties who were killed during the illegal immigration activities. Published a few months after the King David Hotel Bombing and shortly after the disbandment of the Jewish Resistance Movement, The analogy between Irgun and Haganah casualties was unacceptable to the Haganah and resulted in the closing of Ashnav.
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