 Eliezer Liebenstein (later Livneh) was born in Łódź in the Russian Empire (now Poland) in 1902, but his family moved to Rostov-on-Don at the outbreak of World War I.In 1920, he immigrated to Palestine and worked as a road builder.He then joined Ahdut HaAvoda and in 1923 he was elected Secretary of the Haifa Workers Council.