# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hillel-yaffe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:13:18.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hillel-yaffe"
name: "Hillel Yaffe"
slug: "hillel-yaffe"
description: "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."
tagline: "Physician and Zionist (1864–1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hillel_Yaffe_1931.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1864-10-18"
deathDate: "1936-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.686142666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9C_%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94"
    title: "הלל יפה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Yaffe"
    title: "Hillel Yaffe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Yaffe"
    title: "Hillel Yaffe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9C_%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94"
    title: "הלל יפה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "Яффе, Хиллель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "Гілель Яффе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5763019"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump