In 1909 , at the age of twelve , he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine with his family .
Yekutieli was born in Kartuz - Bereza in the Russian Empire ( now in western Belarus ) in 1897 .
In 1909 , at the age of twelve , Yekutieli immigrated to Ottoman Palestine with Yekutieli 's family .
Yekutieli was born in Kartuz - Bereza in the Russian Empire ( now in western Belarus ) in 1897 .