Beinstein, Jacob

Son of Miriam and Shmuel, was born in 1901 in the city of Horodok, near Bialystok (then Russia). Old son of the Orgis, who worked in a weaving factory in Horodok. His father, Rabbi Shmuel of Volkovysk, Bar-Orian and Baki in the literature of the Torah and the spring of modern Hebrew literature and Hoveve Zion, with his spirit on his sons and daughters and his home was a Zionist committee in the town. Yaakov studied in “Chidar Matokan” according to the method “Hebrew in Hebrew” until he was 13 years old and studied in a Russian school. He excelled in knowledge of the Hebrew language and scriptures. From the dawn of his youth he became addicted to the idea of ​​national revival and sought ways to immigrate to Palestine. When the war broke out in 1914, his plans were canceled, and then he devoted himself to agricultural work in the vicinity of the town. He worked as an abandoned peasant farmer who had left their place because of the war. In this he saw training for his life in Israel. He spent two years in Shfeya, five years in Kfar Yechezkel, five years in a tower near Tiberias and 16 years in Kfar Hess, one of the first founders and friends. These 28 years of labor disrupted his body, but he rejected any suggestion for easier or more lucrative work than agriculture, and he strove with all his might to perfect his agriculture. He was devoted to the labor movement in Israel and a member of the Haganah. Jacob was the root of all his being, full of inner confidence, which was added and forged during the years of earthwork, in a long way of gray, everyday heroism, and the blossoming of wilderness. One mantra, full of humor and seriousness, received from an old man in Shfeya, would amuse him: “We are the foundation, and the deeper the foundation in the earth, the stronger the building will be.” On the 15th of Iyar 5708 (May 15, 1948), at the time of changing shifts – a few hours after he heard the declaration of the state’s independence – he was hit by an enemy bullet and fell on a street in Kfar Hess Yaakov was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Tel Mond. .