Pinhas Rutenberg: Let There Be Light
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Pinhas Rutenberg was born in 1879 in Romney, a Russian town of wealthy farmers upon which the unique kibbutz experiment would be based. As a child, he received a traditional religious education and went on to study in the secular Hebrew high school. Rutenberg excelled. He was later accepted to an engineering program at a classy and famous Polytechnic.
As a young student, he witnessed the suffering of the Jews under Tzar Alexander III who instituted a regime of nationalist and religious oppression. Not one to keep quiet, Rutenberg played an active role in the two Russian revolutions. With social waters still stormy and his life in danger, he decided to flee Russia for Italy and take a break from political activism. He wanted to return to his profession and advance hydraulic engineering. But he was greatly troubled by the plight of the Jews. Like T
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