Menahem Ussishkin

Born in 1863, in Russia.
Immigrated to Israel in 1919.
Died in 1941.
Activity range: leader.
Activity era: 1882-1940.

When he was 18 years old, Ussishkin first encountered the pogroms against Jews in Russia, and then became a Zionist.

Membership in Bilu ("Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Ve-nelkha" ("House of Jacob, let us go [up]"), and then in B'nai Moshe ("Children of Moses"), led him to Herzel and to an active membership in Zionist Congresses.
He didn't agree to Herzel's Uganda plan, and he expressed it by not going to the 6th Zionist Congress which was about that same plan, and instead- he organized, on the same date, a parallel convention in Zihron Ya'akov which he called "HaKnesiya HaRishona".

After Herzel's death, he became on of the most important Zionist leader in Israel. "Nothing stands again a will", he said about the progression of the country.
After he immigrated he became the President of the "Keren Kayemet LeYisrael" (Jewish National Fund).
He didn't agree to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
He was known as "The Ironman".