Selig Suskin

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Selig Suskin was an Israeli agronomist and an early member of the Zionist movement. Suskin was born in 1873 in Crimea, then part of the Russian Empire and now part of Ukraine. He was active in the Zionist movement while in Russia, and immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1896, after studying agronomy in Germany. He was one of the founders of the settlement of Be'er Tuvia (until then known as they named Qastina, after the neighboring Arab village of the same name), and worked on the planting of eucalyptus to drain the swamps of Hadera.... Mehr