Avraham Granot

Avraham Granot (; 18 June 1890 – 5 July 1962) was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence.

Biography Granot was born Abraham Granovsky in Fălești, in the Beletsky Uyezd of the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (today Moldova) in 1890. After moving to Palestine in 1907 he attended Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. In 1911 he started studying law and political economy at the University of Fribourg and University of Lausanne, graduating with a PhD in 1917.

In 1960 Granot was elected chairman of the JNF Board of Directors.

Books (English) Land Problems in Palestine (1926) Land Taxation in Palestine (1927) Land and the Jewish Reconstruction in Palestine (1931) The Fiscal System in Palestine (1952) Agrarian Reform and the Record of Israel (1956)