Mayer Ebner

Mayer (Meir) Ebner was a Zionist leader, journalist and lawyer from Bukovina. He served as chairman of the Zionist Organization in Bukovina during the interwar period and was one of the leading figures of the Zionist movement in Romania. Ebner was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, serving four terms in the Parliament of Romania. He was also head of the Jewish community of Czernowitz, chairman of the Jewish National Council and chairman of the Jewish National Party. In 1940 he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine.