# Hillel Yaffe

> Hillel Yaffe was a Russian Jewish physician and Zionist leader who immigrated to the Land of Israel in the First Aliyah during the Ottoman Empire. In the early 20th century he was instrumental in curing malaria, which at that time was the main cause for death of Jews, and helped improve the medical infrastructure of the Yishuv during the same period. The Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera is named after him.

*Physician and Zionist (1864–1936)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/hillel-yaffe

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Born:** 1864-10-18
- **Died:** 1936-01-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 46.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 5.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 35.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Sources
- [הלל יפה](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9C_%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94)
- [Hillel Yaffe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Yaffe)
- [Hillel Yaffe](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Yaffe)
- [הלל יפה](https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9C_%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94)
- [Яффе, Хиллель](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B5%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)
- [Гілель Яффе](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%AF%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B5)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5763019)

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