![Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, 1893-1963](https://israeled.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Outsiders-Silver_Abba-Hillel-courtesy-Cleveland-Memory-Cleveland-State-University-Library-Special-Collections-1917.jpg)
Silver, a child immigrant to New York from Lithuania, was a leading American advocate and fundraiser for Zionism and headed the U.S. Zionist establishment in the late 1940s. He rallied support for a Jewish state among fellow Reform Jews, Jews in general and Americans as a whole, including President Harry Truman. He made a powerful speech to the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine in May 1947.
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