{"description":"Pinchas Rutenberg electrified Palestine in more ways than one.\nA Russian revolutionary who plotted the murder of Lenin and Trotsky, he set up a hydro-electric plant on the Jordan River, blustering past determined opposition, before founding Palestine Airways. As leader of the Jewish population of Palestine he was heavily involved in negotiations with the British Government and its Mandatory administration, endeavouring to forge a peace deal with Arab leaders. Requests in his own will resulted in a paucity of literature about him in English. But now medical luminary and life peer Leslie Turnberg, author of Mandate: Britain's Palestinian Burden, rectifies this with his biography of a remarkable figure.\nBuy a copy of An Unreasonable Man by Leslie Turnberg","height":1080,"html":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe src=\"https://skiv.com/embed/xGymW8G\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"fullscreen\" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>","provider_name":"Skiv","provider_url":"https://skiv.com","thumbnail_height":198,"thumbnail_url":"https://cdn.skiv.com/u/MkG8VMM/da3956204725071570ca251c26f8f3d767b7132088743355891e4f973a2d090d/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg","thumbnail_width":352,"title":"Pinchas Rutenberg: An Unreasonable Man","type":"video","url":"https://skiv.com/v/xGymW8G","version":"1.0","width":1920}