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Cherkassky, Doba (Tova)

Cherkassky, Doba (Tova)

She was born in 1883 in Ukraine and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1905. In 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War, she and her children were deported to Egypt by the Turkish authorities. She and her husband were appointed as directors of the “Beit Hehalutz” near the port of Jaffa, where new immigrants received material and spiritual relief. On the day of the outbreak of the bloody riots of 1921, a Christian Arab police officer suggested evacuating the family in time, but they refused to leave without the rest of the occupants of the house. On 23 Nisan, 1.5.1921, Doba and her husband were brutally murdered. The two were brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv. They left sons and a daughter, and were remembered in the Haganah book in Tel Aviv and in the book “The Fence.”

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