Moshe Levin

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Moshe Levin (1896–1943), known as Batlan and Elisha, was a Jewish socialist leader. He started in Russia with the Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion) and moved to Palestine in 1919, joining the Socialist Workers Party. He ran in the 1920 Histadrut elections under the alias L. Elisha. In 1922, when his party split, he became a leader of the Palestinian Communist Party, along with Menachem “Oskar” Finkelstein. After the party reunified into the Palestine Communist Party, Levin opposed its Arabization. He was deported to Poland in 1928. During World War II he lived in the Soviet Union.