Yehuda Leib Maimon
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| Date of birth | 11 December 1875 |
| Place of birth | Mărculești, Russian Empire |
| Year of aliyah | 1913 |
| Date of death | 10 July 1962 (aged 86) |
| Knessets | 1 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1951 | United Religious Front |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1948–1951 | Minister of Religions and War Victims |
Yehuda Leib Maimon (Hebrew: יהודה לייב מימון, born Yehuda Leib Fishman on 11 December 1875 – 10 July 1962, also known as Yehuda Leib Hacohen Maimon) was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the religious Zionism movement, originating from Bessarabia.
Born in 1875 in Mărculești, Bessarabia (then part of the Russian Empire, now in Moldova), Maimon studied in a number of yeshivot and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the author of the Aruch HaShulchan. He was one of the founders of the Mizrachi movement in 1902. By this time Maimon had moved to the Russian Empire, where he was arrested several times for Zionist activity. He was a delegate to the ninth Zionist Congress in 1909, and attended every one until Israeli independence in 1948.
In 1913, Maimon moved to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire), but was expelled during World War I. He moved to the United States, where he organised the Mizrachi movement. After returning to Mandate Palestine (now under British control) in 1919, Maimon became leader of Mizrachi in the country and together with Abraham Isaac Kook he helped establish the Chief Rabbinate. He was elected to the board of the Jewish Agency in 1935. In 1937, he founded Mossad Harav Kook, a religious research foundation and notable publishing house named in honor of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.
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