Feiwel was born in Moravia, now in the Czech Republic. He co-founded the Jewish People’s Voice in 1897 and the Jiidischer Verlag publishing house in Berlin in 1902 and served as the editor of Theodor Herzl’s weekly Zionist newspaper, Die Welt. He helped launch the Democratic Faction at the Fifth Zionist Congress. He was involved in Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency finance starting in 1906 and settled in Palestine in 1933.
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