Ben Nun, Shlomo

Born in 1907 in Greece. As a child, his family moved to the city of Haskovo, Bulgaria. Where the mother died of cancer and shortly thereafter the father died. Shlomo’s younger sister was adopted and he remained alone. In the late 1920s he immigrated to Palestine. Here he managed to purchase a cart and two mules and worked as an agricultural laborer in the Rehovot area. During his work and contacts with the Arab workers he learned Arabic and ruled it well in 1934, sold the mules and traveled to a relative in Greece. Where he married a young Jewish wife and when they both came to Israel they settled in Beit Hanan. In 1935 a settlement organization was established in Haifa, founded by the immigrants from Bulgaria called “HaKatzar”. Shlomo joined this organization and settled with his friends in Kfar Hittim, a settlement in the Arbel Valley that had already been abandoned twice in the past. Shlomo, who had already experienced agricultural work in the past, instructed his colleagues at work. After the outbreak of the 1936 riots, he enlisted as a guard for the British police, and on several occasions he expelled Bedouin from the surrounding area who had come with their flocks to the Jewish agricultural areas of the Jewish settlement On the morning of Tu B’Av, The body was found in the Nazareth Mountains around Sajera, and the autopsy showed that the man was murdered shortly before the body was found. There were signs of violence that taught that Shlomo was fighting with his kidnappers, and on December 21, 1937 he was laid to rest in the first grave of Kfar Hitim, leaving a wife and two-year-old daughter.