Means of Payment - Makolet Strachilevits - Famed Zionist activist Zvi Strachilevits - start of the 20th century

Means of Payment - Makolet Strachilevits - Famed Zionist activist Zvi Strachilevits - start of the 20th century

Means of payment of "Makolet Strachilevits" Petach Tivka - "will provide merchandise for this note, in the amount of 04 prutot." note #84. Stamped on the back with Zvi Strachilevits stamp.

Zvi Strachilevits was born in Kishinev [Bessarabia] in 1880. He was  a passionate Zionist activist from the very start. When Herzl's Medinat HaYehudim was first published, he worked day and night to sell the Zionist shekel to every adult Jew in the city - and he was only seventeen-years-old. When the local Jews sadly said that they could not choose him as a representative to the congress because of his age, he calmed them saying, "By the time you manage to do anything on behalf of Zion, I will already be there myself." Right after the first congress he immigrated to Palestine in 1897. He worked in agriculture. He was one of the prominent proponents of the idea of "avoda ivrit." When Herzl visited Palestine, he was one of the four members of the delegation that invited him to visit the Jewish settlements and was present during Herzl's meeting with Emperor Wilhelm II at the entrance to Mikve Yisrael. He initiated a number of important institutions in Petach Tikva, including the employment bureau, public library, worker's kitchen, cooperative winery, and the "Geula" mutual credit institution. After the British conquest, he moved to Jaffa, where he continued working for the public good.

Size: 5x7 cm. Very fine condition.