Eliezer Kaplan

1891–1952 (age 61)

Biography

Eliezer Kaplan arrived in Palestine as a young man and threw himself into the emerging labor movement, helping to organize cooperative institutions and the pre-state economic foundations.

As Israel's first Minister of Finance he stewarded the young treasury with integrity, and his grave at Mount Herzl reminds visitors of the steady hand that shaped the state's fiscal path.

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