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Palestinian Jews : Rafael Abulafia
He was born in Rishon L'Zion, on the 11th of Nissan 5739 (28.3.1893).
To his father Solomon and to his mother Rivka, daughter of Yaakov Perez Freiman.
On his father's side, he is a descendant of learned people, famous poets, and prominent rabbis, who served as rabbis in various periods at the head of the rabbinate in Jerusalem and in the other holy cities of Eretz Israel and neighboring countries. Among them was Rabbi Chaim Abulafia who was invited by Shaikh Taher al-Omar ("king of the Galilee") in 1740 and who restored Tiberias more than two hundred years ago.
His grandfather, on his mother's side, was one of the ten founders of Rishon L'Zion in 1882, and his parents Shlomo and Rivka were among the founders of Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv) and their names engraved at the top of the list of founders on the monument To the founders of the city on Rothschild Boulevard.
From 1911 to 1914 he was a French and Arabic teacher in Nes Ziona.
With the declaration of the First World War in 1914 he returned to Tel Aviv and was appointed by the Turkish Authority to manage the first post district in Tel Aviv.
He was among the founders and first Maccabees in Israel and its operators.
When the days of accessibility and persecution of General Jamal Pasha, the military commander of Syria and Eretz Israel, and his assistant Hassan Bayyi the governor of Jaffa, began in the Jewish community and the expulsion of foreign subjects abroad, he was touched by the cruel deportations and decided not to conscript to the Ottoman army that persecuted its' own people.
He then managed to secretly move out to Egypt, Alexandria - where most of the deportees from Eretz Israel, including many members of the community and young people were concentrated.
The situation in Eretz Israel raised a discontent and an idea arose, to organize a regiment of Hebrew soldiers, who together with the British army, would fight the Ottomans and expel them from Eretz Israel
It was created mainly by the initiative of Ze'ev Jabot Naski and Joseph Trumpeldor and called 'ZION MULE CORPS'. He volunteered immediately and was sent to Gallipoli (Turkey) as a battalion sergeant...
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He was born in Rishon L'Zion, on the 11th of Nissan 5739 (28.3.1893).
To his father Solomon and to his mother Rivka, daughter of Yaakov Perez Freiman.
On his father's side, he is a descendant of learned people, famous poets, and prominent rabbis, who served as rabbis in various periods at the head of the rabbinate in Jerusalem and in the other holy cities of Eretz Israel and neighboring countries. Among them was Rabbi Chaim Abulafia who was invited by Shaikh Taher al-Omar ("king of the Galilee") in 1740 and who restored Tiberias more than two hundred years ago.
His grandfather, on his mother's side, was one of the ten founders of Rishon L'Zion in 1882, and his parents Shlomo and Rivka were among the founders of Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv) and their names engraved at the top of the list of founders on the monument To the founders of the city on Rothschild Boulevard.
From 1911 to 1914 he was a French and Arabic teacher in Nes Ziona.
With the declaration of the First World War in 1914 he returned to Tel Aviv and was appointed by the Turkish Authority to manage the first post district in Tel Aviv.
He was among the founders and first Maccabees in Israel and its operators.
When the days of accessibility and persecution of General Jamal Pasha, the military commander of Syria and Eretz Israel, and his assistant Hassan Bayyi the governor of Jaffa, began in the Jewish community and the expulsion of foreign subjects abroad, he was touched by the cruel deportations and decided not to conscript to the Ottoman army that persecuted its' own people.
He then managed to secretly move out to Egypt, Alexandria - where most of the deportees from Eretz Israel, including many members of the community and young people were concentrated.
The situation in Eretz Israel raised a discontent and an idea arose, to organize a regiment of Hebrew soldiers, who together with the British army, would fight the Ottomans and expel them from Eretz Israel
It was created mainly by the initiative of Ze'ev Jabot Naski and Joseph Trumpeldor and called 'ZION MULE CORPS'. He volunteered immediately and was sent to Gallipoli (Turkey) as a battalion sergeant...
2386 | Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel
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