Yeshayahu Press

Yeshayahu Press

Yeshayahu Press (March 2, 1874 – June 11, 1955) was a prominent researcher of the land of Israel. He was born in Jerusalem, which his father, Haim Press, helped build. Givat Yeshayahu was named after him. He wrote Topographical-Historical Encyclopedia of the Land of Israel.^[1] During the Ottoman rule over Palestine, Press served as the first Secretary of the Teachers' Union, during which time he also helped to establish the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society.^[2] With the founding the political state of Modern Israel, Press was among the driving force behind the establishment of the "Government Naming Committee" in 1949.

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^ Mêrôn Benveniśtî (2000). Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. University of California Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-520-21154-4. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
^ Davar (12 June 1955), "Yeshayahu Press has Gone the Way of the World"

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[Benveniśtî2000-1] Mêrôn Benveniśtî (2000). Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. University of California Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-520-21154-4. Retrieved 3 January 2013.

[2] Davar (12 June 1955), "Yeshayahu Press has Gone the Way of the World"

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