17 Facts About Nathan Mileikowsky

Rabbi Nathan Mileikowsky was a Zionist political activist, rabbi, and writer.

Nathan Mileikowsky was born in 1879 in Kreva, Russian Empire, which at that time was part of the Pale of Settlement the son of Zvi Nathan Mileikowsky and Liba Gitel Halevi.

Nathan Mileikowsky's father, made a living from leasing an agricultural estate in a nearby village.

At the age of 10 Nathan Mileikowsky was sent to the Volozhin yeshiva, where he spent eight years and was ordained.

Already while Nathan Mileikowsky attended yeshiva he began to make speeches and lectures and was in contact with the Zionist activist Yehuda Zvi Ibzarov who encouraged him to engage in this field.

At the age of 20 Nathan Mileikowsky began promoting Zionism in the Siberia region, following a request to do so by the Zionist leader Yechiel Chlenov.

In 1908 Nathan Mileikowsky moved to Poland and became the director of the Hebrew Gymnasium of Mordechai Yaakov Krinsky in Warsaw, while continuing to promote Zionism in Poland.

Nathan Mileikowsky went through hundreds of towns and was considered one of the most popular Zionist speakers.

Nathan Mileikowsky used to deliver his sermons in Hebrew, an uncommon practice at that time.

The report mentioned the "excellent speech" made by Rabbi Nathan Mileikowsky, which was carried partly in Hebrew and partly in Yiddish.

In 1914 Nathan Mileikowsky was appointed rabbi of the city Rivne, but following World War I he remained with his family in Lodz.

In 1920, Nathan Mileikowsky immigrated to Mandatory Palestine with his wife and nine children, and became the director of the school "Vilkomitz" in Rosh Pina.

In 1926, the newspaper "Dos Yiddishe Folk" reported that the American Zionist Rabbi Nathan Mileikowsky lectured in 700 lectures through nine months.

In 1928 Nathan Mileikowsky published several of his speeches in the book Nation and State.

Rabbi Nathan Mileikowsky argued that the evidence indicated that they did not commit the assassination and that their execution could lead to a civil war, which would harm the Zionist enterprise.

Rabbi Nathan Mileikowsky died in Jerusalem on February 4,1935, and was buried in the Mount of Olives Cemetery.

Nathan and his wife Sarah Mileikowsky had nine children, including: Benzion Netanyahu and Elisha Netanyahu.