(1887-1920)
Italian naval officer and member of the Zionist Commission. He was born in Venice. He lectured at the naval academy and the military school in Turin. He was appointed to the Zionist Commission and travelled to Palestine in 1918. In 1920 he helped to obtain the approval of the Italian Foreign Office for the British Balfour Declaration and the Mandate on Palestine.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.