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Selig Soskin (; 1873 – 26 February 1959) was an Israeli and an early member of the .


Biography
was born in 1873 in , then part of the . He was active in the Zionist movement while in Russia, and immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1896, after studying in .

He was one of the founders of the settlement of Be'er Tuvia (until then known as , after the neighboring village of the same name), and worked on the planting of to drain the swamps of

In 1898, Soskin accompanied during his visit to Palestine, and subsequently assisted in research to examine the possibilities for agriculture in different regions in the country. In 1903, he participated in the Sixth Zionist Congress, where he was elected to the Committee for the Study of Eretz Israel, along with Otto Warburg and Franz Oppenheimer. In connection with the works of the committee, he was part of a delegation to , in the northern , to investigate the area at the request of Herzl. Part of his agricultural research was conducted in collaboration with , with whom he became friends while in in the early part of the twentieth century.

In 1918, he was appointed Director of Settlement on the Jewish National Fund (the "JNF") and, following a tour of Europe, began to examine the implementation of an agricultural model. The model included intensive agriculture on small plots of land. He tried to implement this model in the district, and it saw success with the founding of in 1934. He also championed the use of - the growth of plants on water; in 1944, he proposed a plan to feed liberated Europe with hydroponic vegetables.

He became a supporter of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and of the Revisionist movement.


Awards and honours


See also
  • List of Israel Prize recipients


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