Yeshayahu Press

Yeshayahu Press (March 2, 1874 – June 11, 1955) was a prominent researcher of the land of Israel. He was born in Jerusalem, which his father, Haim Press, helped build. Givat Yeshayahu was named after him. He wrote Topographical-Historical Encyclopedia of the Land of Israel.[1] During the Ottoman rule over Palestine, Press served as the first Secretary of the Teachers' Union, during which time he also helped to establish the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society.[2] With the founding the political state of Modern Israel, Press was among the driving force behind the establishment of the "Government Naming Committee" in 1949.

Yeshayahu Press

References

Mêrôn Benveniśtî (2000). Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. University of California Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-520-21154-4. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
Davar (12 June 1955), "Yeshayahu Press has Gone the Way of the World"

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[Benveniśtî2000-1] Mêrôn Benveniśtî (2000). Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. University of California Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-520-21154-4. Retrieved 3 January 2013.

[2] Davar (12 June 1955), "Yeshayahu Press has Gone the Way of the World"