Claim: Jacob De Haas, a Jewish journalist who was born in London in 1937, worked as a secretary of the First Zionist Congress and as a member of Hovevei Zion to promote the Zionist program of Theodor Herzl.
Evidence: Jacob de Haas (13 August 1872 – 21 March 1937) was a British-born Jewish journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement in the United States.