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Gelman, Nahum

Gelman, Nahum


Son of Bracha and Shlomo. He was born in 1892 in Pemiowka, Russia, where he immigrated to Eretz Israel from Kiev and worked in Petah Tikva as a laborer, then moved to guard with Hashomer in Rehovot and was known as one of the best guards, He was one of the first defenders of the Arabs who lived near the Yishuv, and he was able to establish peaceful relations with the Yishuv, and during World War I he was one of the first volunteers of the ” Sarafand on 20 March 1920, and was laid to rest in the old cemetery in Tel Aviv

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