Nili Museum- Beit Aaronsohn - Story of the First Jewish Underground, Zichron Ya'akov, Israel
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Nili - Story of the First Jewish Underground
Acronym for: ' Netzach Israel Lo Yishaker '- The Eternity of Israel will not deceive. (Samuel 1, 15.29)
The story of the 'N.I.L.I.' is bound with the story of the Aaronsohn family, one of the founding families of Zichron Ya'akov (1882), in the Yishuv which was part of the Ottoman Empire at that time. During World War 1, the rule became oppressive and cruel, threatening the very existence of the Jewish settlements in Eretz Israel.
Aaron, the eldest of the Aaronsohn children, was a scientist, and having discovered the original prototype of wheat, for which he received international acclaim, he established an agricultural experimental station in Atlith.
Aaron's, chief assistant was Avshalom Feinberg, a young man from Hadera, a family friend, and fiancé of Rivka Aaronsohn the youngest daughter of the family.
At the outbreak of World War 1, a locust plague attacked Palestine and Aaron was appointed to find a solution to bring it to a conclusion, and Avshalom, as his deputy in the Experimental Station, accompanied him on this mission.
After witnessing the ravaging of the Yishuv by the Turks, Avshalom and Alexander, Aaron's brother, prevailed upon Aaron to establish the ' N.I.L.I. 'as an underground spy ring to provide the English Army with information against the Turkish Army.
The first action taken was by Avshalom who traveled to Egypt and made contact with the British, and was then returned by a British ship to Palestine. For some time after this a British boat arrived in Atlith where N.I.L.I. members supplied information and instructions.
In 1916, no further British ships arrived and Aaron travels to Britain, establishing contact with the War Office and two months later proceeds to Egypt supplying the British with information.
The Aims of the ' N.I.L.I.' were:
* To assist the British in conquering Eretz Israel by gathering information.
* To support the Jewish Yishuv, with Relief Fund money, at a time of famine and illness.
* To draw to world attention what was happening in Eretz Israel
* To fulfill the dream of the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz Israel.
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When the contact between Aaron and the British was disrupted, Avshalom decides to depart for Egypt by crossing through the Sinai desert, together with Yoseph Lishansky. Avshalom is killed en route. His burial place was discovered near Rafiah, after the Six Day War and his remains were brought to Israel for a State funeral.
The contact between Aaron and the British was renewed. Sara was put in charge of the command of the spy ring in Eretz Israel and transferred important information, gathered from the spy network in Israel, to the British.
The information transferred by the N.I.L.I. was about the Turkish Forces: their numbers, movements, advances, and availability of water supplies in the desert for British troops.
Due to this information from the 'N.I.L.I.' the numbers of British soldiers killed and wounded in battle were reduced, and final victory by the British brought an end to the war in the region.
Through contacts with the 'N.I.LI.' the Yishuv received relief funds as the members served as a conduit for this money.
Additionally through the N.I.L.I. the Jews in the Diaspora were updated with information on the situation of the Yishuv.
The codes and signs used by its members are all described in the museum by means of a movie, and a guided tour of the Aaronsohn house culminating the story of how the heroes were captured.
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Inspire a woman, you inspire a family. Inspire enough families, you inspire a community. Inspire enough communities, you can change the world.If you wanted to have the greatest influence on the direction of the Jewish people, whom should you target? The Jewish mother, that’s who.
In 2008, eight Jewish women from different walks of life, affiliations, observance, and ages began a powerful dialogue. They agreed that it was time to empower and inspire women with the rich beauty of their Jewish heritage, and the JWRP was born.
The JWRP seeks to inspire women to transform themselves, transform their families, their communities, and the world. Our flagship program is Momentum, an eight-day journey through Israel. Momentum is more than a tour of Israel; it is an opportunity to deeply explore ourselves. Thousands of women from 19 different countries have already experienced this life-changing trip, paying only their own airfare, and returning home with the best gift of all—a deep, eternal connection to Israel, a profound kinship with each other, and a heart filled with Jewish values.
We work in partnership with a wide spectrum of community organizations, from Jewish outreach centers to Federations. Our partners recruit the women, staff the buses and continue the journey through continually evolving follow-up programming that keeps the inspiration going and helps to create bonds that extend not only to communities, but globally.
One of the most exciting results of our trips was the impact on families. We started hearing from our participants: “My husband has to see this and hear this!” We also heard from our partnering organizations, and finally, from the husbands themselves: “We are behind our wives, we don’t understand, please do a trip for us!” So we responded with Momentum opportunities for men, which have quickly become one of our greatest follow-up programs, helping to lift the family together.
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The NILI Spy Ring נילי: אהבה, ריגול ומוות
סיפור הקמת והפעלת רשת הריגול נילי במלחמת העולם הראשונה. בני-משפחה וחוקרי התקופה, מספרים על הדמויות המובילות.
The Story of the Jewish spy ring that helped the British Army capture Palestine during WWI.
NILI (Sarah the Heroine of Nili) Trailer1
Documentary feature film, Freedom Fighters of NILI Trailer. For more information please visit:
With the Turks in Palestine by Alexander Aaronsohn (1888-1948)
While Belgium is bleeding and hoping, while Poland suffers and dreams of liberation, while Serbia is waiting for redemption, there is a little country the soul of which is torn to pieces—a little country that is so remote, so remote that her ardent sighs cannot be heard.
It is the country of perpetual sacrifice, the country that saw Abraham build the altar upon which he was ready to immolate his only son, the country that Moses saw from a distance, stretching in beauty and loveliness,—a land of promise never to be attained,—the country that gave the world its symbols of soul and spirit. Palestine!
No war correspondents, no Red Cross or relief committees have gone to Palestine, because no actual fighting has taken place there, and yet hundreds of thousands are suffering there that worst of agonies, the agony of the spirit.
Those who have devoted their lives to show the world that Palestine can be made again a country flowing with milk and honey, those who have dreamed of reviving the spirit of the prophets and the great teachers, are hanged and persecuted and exiled, their dreams shattered, their holy places profaned, their work ruined. Cut off from the world, with no bread to sustain the starving body, the heavy boot of a barbarian soldiery trampling their very soul, the dreamers of Palestine refuse to surrender, and amidst the clash of guns and swords they are battling for the spirit with the weapons of the spirit.
The time has not yet come to write the record of these battles, nor even to attempt to render justice to the sublime heroes of Palestine. This book is merely the story of some of the personal experiences of one who has done less and suffered less than thousands of his comrades.(Summary from the Introduction)
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1917 an Israeli Spy for Britain, Avshalom Feinberg a NILI member - Memorial
1917 Israeli Spy for Britain - Avshalom Feinberg a NILI member. Memorial near Hadera beach
אבשלום פיינברג
Avshalom Feinberg (Hebrew: אבשלום פיינברג, October 23, 1889 – January 20, 1917) was one of the leaders of Nili, a Jewish spy network in Ottoman Palestine helping the British fight the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Feinberg was born in Gedera, Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and studied in France.[1] He returned to work with Aaron Aaronsohn at the agronomy research station in Atlit. Soon after the beginning of war, the four Aaronsohn siblings (Sarah Aaronsohn, Rivka, Alex, and Aaron) founded the Nili underground along with Feinberg. They were later joined by Yosef Lishansky and others. In 1915 Feinberg travelled to Egypt and made contact with British Naval Intelligence. In 1917, Feinberg again journeyed to Egypt, on foot. He was apparently killed on his way back by a group of Bedouins near the British front in Sinai, close to Rafah.[2] His fate was unknown until after the 1967 Six-Day War when his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket to mark the spot where he lay.[3]
In 1979 a new Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula, Avshalom, was named after him. Although it was abandoned in 1982 following the Camp David Accords, a new village by the same name was founded in Israel in 1990.
NILI was a secret, pro-British spying organization, which operated under Turkish rule in Palestine during World War I, under the leadership of the world-renowned agronomist Aaron Aaronsohn. NILI is an acronym for the Hebrew phrase “Netzah Yisrael Lo Yeshaker,”meaning The Eternal One of Israel will not lie (Samuel I 15:29), which served as its password.
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CIMG1890 The 1917 NILI Spie for Britain Avshalom Feinberg Memorial Hadera
Freedom Fighters of Nili - Behind the scenes promo
Freedom Fighters of Nili - Behind the scenes promo of the feature documentary about Sarah, the Heroine of Nili.
Sarah Aaronsohn | heroine of Nili | Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yishaker |
Sarah Aaronsohn (January 5, 1890 October 9, 1917) Sarah was a member of Nili, a ring of Jewish spies working for the British in World War I, and a sister of notable botanist Aaron Aaronsohn. Sarah Aaronsohn, her brother Aaron, and their sister Rebecca, together with their friend Avshalom Feinberg formed and led Nili. In 1915, even before the group commenced operations, the Turks imprisoned Feinberg on suspicion of spying, which was not true at the time. From March to October 1915, a plague of locusts stripped areas in and around Palestine of almost all vegetation and the Turkish authorities, worried about feeding their troops, turned to world-famous botanist and the region's leading agronomist, Aaron Aaronsohn. He requested the release of his friend and assistant, Avshalom Feinberg. The team fighting the locust invasion was given permission to move around the country. They also collected strategic information about Ottoman camps and troop deployment. For months, the group was not taken seriously by British intelligence, and attempts by Aaron Aaronsohn and Avshalom Feinberg to establish communication channels in Cairo and Port Said failed. Only after Aaron Aaronsohn arrived in London (by way of Berlin and Copenhagen) and by virtue of his reputation, was he able to obtain cooperation from the diplomat Sir Mark Sykes. Sarah oversaw operations in Zikhron Ya'aqov.
Sarah Aaronsohn (1890-1917)
Sarah Aaronsohn
Spies of Palestine---Love, Betrayal, and the Heroic Life of Sarah Aaronsohn
Sarah Aaronsohn was born as part of the first wave of Jewish immigrants who fled the pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1880s, settling in the province of Syria-Palestine. By the outbreak of World War I, her family was one of the area’s most prominent.
Join award-winning author James Srodes as he discusses his newest book which describes how the Aaronsohns came to side with the Allied forces and form the NILI espionage organization to spy against the Turkish Arm.
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