Adler, Ze’ev

Son of Sarah and Shaul. His parents immigrated from Austria to Eretz Israel and settled in Safed. Then they moved to Tiberias for the father’s business. With the establishment of the settlement of Sejera in 1902, the eldest Zeev left his father’s home, went to work in the farm, and then moved to the family. The father was one of the first farmers to settle in the moshava, and the boys continued to work, and together they set up a model agricultural farm. Ze’ev was a tall, golden-curled young man, his gray-blue eyes expressing kindness and a kindly smile. A great disaster struck him with the death of his young wife. He handed over the three toddlers who had slept with them from their mother to his mother in Sejera, and he himself went to work in Poriah and from there to Sharona with its founding. He participated in the development of the new Hebrew Yishuv and also in defending it from attempts by rioters to harass the soul and property. After the outbreak of the First World War, the settlement’s orchards reached a crisis with the cessation of the aid it would receive from the United States. In 1917 Ze’ev left the place and was hired to guard at Yavne’el. There, too, he became known for his devotion to his duties and was honored by the locals, who called him “Khawaja Walwell.” On August 12, 1818, about a month before the British forces entered the area, he was placed on his watch and laid to rest in Yavne’el, leaving two daughters and a son, commemorating the book “One Hundred Years of Preservation in Israel” and “Settlement in the Lower Galilee.”