Chaim Arlosoroff

Arlosoroff headed the political department of the Jewish Agency, effectively the Yishuv's foreign minister, while still in his early thirties. He opened the talks with Nazi Germany that led to the Haavara (Transfer) Agreement, concluded in August 1933, which allowed roughly 60,000 German Jews to emigrate to Mandate Eretz Israel and transfer part of their assets in the form of German goods, a deeply controversial arrangement that undercut the international anti-Nazi boycott. He was shot on the Tel Aviv beach on 16 June 1933 while walking with his wife; the Revisionist activists Abraham Stavsky and Zvi Rosenblatt were charged, and both were eventually acquitted, and the unsolved murder poisoned relations between the Labor and Revisionist camps for decades. His death removed one of the most capable diplomatic minds the Zionist movement had.