Bakar, Tzvi

Was born in 1887 in the city of Timir Khan-Shura in the Dagestan region of the Caucasus. As a young man, he was attracted to the city of Baku and there he joined the Russian Social Democrats, which most of the Jewish revolutionaries were members of, but did not accept the party’s position on the question of Jews and Judaism. He reached the conclusion that the Jews needed their own homeland, joined the young party Poalei Zion and began to study the history of the Jewish people in the past and present. Inspired by Menachem Ussishkin’s booklet “Our Program” he traveled with his friend to the city of Sevastopol to work there temporarily and save money for the expenses of the road, but the fear of riots disrupted their plan and then smuggled the border between Russia and Austria and arrived in the city of Lvov in Galicia where again worked to save their way. In 1905 they finally made it to Israel. Zvi joined the ranks of the Hashomer organization, which was founded at the time and was sent to be the first guard in the village of Sejera. He continued to do his job as a guard in various towns and spent years with courage and wisdom. Thanks to his kindness, his mild character and nobility managed to smooth the gaps between the guards and the peasants of the colonies. In 1918 Zwi remained in the settlement of Beit-Gan in the Lower Galilee and one day it became clear that when he was saved, about twenty animals were stolen from one of the farmers in the colony. Then he went alone to trace the thieves and return the theft to its owners. A few nights he lurked in the wadi for thieves, and as a result he was cold and sick with flu. He died of his illness. He was laid to rest in Yavne’el and later transferred to the “Hashomer” cemetery in Kfar Giladi, where he left a wife and three daughters, his fourth daughter was born after his death, and his name was commemorated. The book “Hashomer” and “Dreamers and Warriors”.