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Lord Leslie Turnberg

Pinchas Rutenberg
An Unreasonable Man

A Russian revolutionary and an assassin.
Plotted the assassination of Lenin and Trotsky.
Escaped to Palestine 
Electrified the whole land.
Set up Palestine Airways, forerunner of El Al.
Negotiated peace with Arab leaders

After a career in medicine, as a Professor of Medicine and Dean of Manchester’s Medical School, Leslie was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1992. Given a Peerage by Tony Blair in 2000 to speak on health matters in the Lords he has increasingly spoken about Israel and the Middle East.

Leslie has published three books on Israel, including ‘Beyond the Balfour Declaration,’ ‘Mandate; the Palestine Crucible, 1919-1939’ and ‘An Unreasonable Man; Pinchas Rutenberg, The Russian Revolutionary who Electrified Palestine.’ Most recently, in May 2024, he published ‘Patients First; How to Save the NHS’.