# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yisrael-bak
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:08.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yisrael-bak"
name: "Yisrael Bak"
slug: "yisrael-bak"
description: "Yisrael Bak was a printer, a publisher and public figure in the Old Yishuv in the Land of Israel in the 19th century. He established one of the earliest Jewish farming communities in the Galilee. He revived Hebrew printing in Safed after a hiatus of 250 years and established the first Hebrew printing house in Jerusalem. He published Havatzelet, the second Hebrew newspaper published in the land of Israel."
tagline: "Russian Jewish publisher"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1797"
deathDate: "1874-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.35
  momentum:             2.222222222222222
  historical:           6.546509333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Israel_Bak"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Back"
    title: "Israel Back"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisrael_Bak"
    title: "Yisrael Bak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisrael_Bak"
    title: "Yisrael Bak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%91%22%D7%A7"
    title: "ישראל ב\"ק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Bak"
    title: "Israel Bak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BA%2C_%D0%98%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Бак, Израиль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12408382"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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