 The first, Rabbi Avraam Mendl of Urzhyshchev (?- 1910) was one of very few AdMo"Rim who openly supported the Zionist movement.His impassioned letter in support of the Hibat Zion movement was published in the Shivat Zion collection, and it is said that he sang Hatikva with tears in his eyes at the wedding of one of his grandsons.