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Feingold, Yitzhak (Isaac) Yehoshua

Feingold, Yitzhak (Isaac) Yehoshua

Was born in 1837 in Grodno, Poland, and was educated in the “Heder” and yeshivas in Grodno and Slonim. He became a member of the Hibbat Zion movement and later in the Zionist movement. In 1900 he made aliya with his family to Palestine, he settled in Jerusalem and Isaac managed his brother’s business, and at the beginning of the First World War he was deported to Egypt, and in 1920 he returned to Israel and founded the Ariel cigarette factory in Tel Aviv, the first Jewish factory founded after the British conquest. On August 25, 1929, with the outbreak of the riots, Isaac volunteered to rescue two Jewish workers who had remained in the Spiret factory in the Abu Kabir neighborhood, and four of them, including Isaac Yehoshua, were killed. His son Ben-Zion was seriously wounded. Isaac was laid to rest in the old cemetery in Tel Aviv, leaving a wife and seven children. Was immortalized in the book Yizkor for the martyrs of 1929 and in the Encyclopedia of Pioneers and Builders.

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