Meir Grossmann

Meir Grossmann was born in 1888 in Temryuk

Meir Grossmann was born in 1888 in Temryuk, in the Krasnodar region of Russia, to Rachel and Eliyahu. He studied in Russian schools and at universities in Petersburg and Berlin. As a young man he joined the Poale Zion movement.

During World War I he worked at the Zionist office in Copenhagen and helped Ze'ev Jabotinsky create the Jewish battalions. In 1917 he was elected to Zionist and Jewish bodies in Ukraine and sat in the Ukrainian parliament. He edited a newspaper, cofounded the Jewish Telegraphic Agency with Jacob Landau, and helped found the Palestine Post.

He cofounded the Revisionist Zionist party and became its deputy chairman in 1925. He opposed leaving the Zionist Organization, and in 1933 he founded and led the Jewish State Party. He moved to the Land of Israel in 1934.

In 1946 his party merged with the Revisionists after they returned to the Zionist Organization, and he led the united movement. In 1956 he joined the General Zionists and represented them in the Jewish Agency. He died in Tel Aviv in 1964 and was buried at Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery.