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Selig Suskin

Selig Suskin (1873–26 February 1959) 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 neighbouring Arab village of the same name), and worked on the planting of eucalyptus to drain the swamps of Hadera.In 1898, Suskin accompanied Theodor Herzl 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 connexion with the works of the committee, he was part of a delegation to El Arish, in the northern Sinai, to investigate the area at the request of Herzl.

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