Samuel Ussishkin

• He was born in Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipro, Ukraine) on May 19, 1899, to the Zionist leader Menachem Ussishkin and his wife Esther (née Fleye).
• As a child, he was educated by private tutors at home and later graduated with distinction from the Rappoport Boys’ Gymnasium.
• He devoted much of his time to activity in the Zionist Students’ Union, especially after the February 1917 Revolution and the fall of the Tsarist regime.
• In 1917, after completing his studies at the gymnasium, he began studying medicine at the university, while remaining active in the Zionist Students’ Union. About a year later, he switched to studying law.
• In 1922, he completed his legal studies at the University of Cambridge and immigrated to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine).
• He worked for many years in Jerusalem as an independent attorney.
• In 1926, Ussishkin took on the role of legal advisor to the Jewish National Fund (JNF). This became the main focus of his legal work until his retirement in 1969.
• In 1941, following the death of his father Menachem Ussishkin, he was elected to the JNF Board of Directors as a representative of the General Zionists Party.
• After the establishment of the State of Israel, he played a key role in the legal registration of the JNF—previously registered in Britain—as an Israeli company, and in the transfer of lands between the JNF and the Israel Lands Administration.
• He taught for many years at the School of Law and Economics in Tel Aviv.
• He was active in Zionist institutions, served as a delegate to several Zionist Congresses, and was a member of the Zionist Supreme Court.
• He published four books on historical, legal, and constitutional topics, as well as a memoir that was published posthumously. For many years, he regularly wrote opinion columns on current affairs for the daily newspapers Haaretz and HaBoker.
• He died of heart disease at his home in Jerusalem on August 2, 1978, at the age of 79.

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