Jacob Klivnov

Jacob Klivnov was born in 1887 in Chalopieničy

Klivnov was born in 1887 in Khalopenichy, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. His parents were Reuven Klivnov and Shoshana Lipschitz, a Zionist family. His father was a Hebrew teacher and Zionist activist.

He studied in a cheder as a child and later qualified in law at the University of Saint Petersburg in 1912. From 1905 to 1910 he was active in the Zionist youth group HaTehiya.

From 1907 to 1920 he edited the Russian language Jewish newspaper Rassvet. He served as secretary of the Zionist Federation in Russia and was a delegate to Zionist congresses from 1913. In 1918 he married Yehudit Goldberg.

He moved to the Land of Israel in 1921 and worked as a lawyer. He was elected to the Community Committee in Haifa and was among the founders of Kiryat Motzkin.

He was elected to the Knesset in 1949 and 1951, and entered the Knesset again in 1957 in place of Haim Ariav. He sat on the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee and received honorary citizenship of Haifa in 1960. He died in 1966, and streets in Haifa and Kiryat Motzkin bear his name.