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Pinhas Rutenberg ( Russian: Пётр Моисеевич Рутенберг, Pyotr Moiseyevich Rutenberg; Hebrew: פנחס רוטנברג: 5 February 1879 – 3 January 1942) was a Russian businessman, hydraulic engineer and political activist. He played an active role in two Russian revolutions, in 1905 and 1917.
A biography of Pinḥas Rutenberg, a Russian-born Zionist leader and engineer who founded the Palestine Electric Company and the Rutenberg Foundation. Learn about his involvement in the revolutionary movement, the Jewish military units, the Va'ad Le'ummi, and the Arab-Jewish relations.
Jim Rutenberg is a writer at large for The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. He has written over 2,300 articles for The New York Times.
Feb 1, 2024 · Born in the Ukraine in 1879, Rutenberg was one of very few Jews who managed to gain entrance to the Imperial St Petersburg Institute of Technology. There he began his training as an engineer. But...
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Pinhas Rutenberg, 1879-1942. Rutenberg was born in Russia and devoted himself to the Russian revolutions of the early 20th century. After realizing that antisemitism remained potent in European politics, he immigrated to Palestine.
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Rutenberg is more widely known as a prominent engineer, and his revolutionary work dealing with hydroelectricity. In 1920, he submitted a plan to the British to build hydroelectric plants on the Jordan River .