Ha’Shimshoni, Shmuel
Son of Sonia and Dov. He was born in 1879 in Pitra-Neametz, Romania, where he received a traditional and general education, and in 1896 immigrated to Eretz Israel, where one of the passengers stole his documents and he was forced to sneak into the Arab boat that led from Jaffa to the Yarkon River. He moved to Galilee and was one of the first workers in Sejera, and was chosen to be one of the tenants who were candidates for permanent settlement and in 1901 he organized the farm workers in negotiations for the organization of agricultural workers in a national framework. He was one of the founders of the Jewish Commune. In 1903 he married Zahava Shnaidman, daughter of a farmer, from the first pioneers in Galilee. In 1914, following the fever, he left his agricultural work at the order of the doctor and went to Egypt, where he lived until 1917 in Cairo. In Cairo he found a large field of activity in the Jewish community, in the Zionist Organization. After World War I, he returned to Jerusalem. In 1929, the day after the riots, when Jews and non-Jews were afraid to open their businesses, he was the first to open his shop, opposite the city garden, and on the same day he even visited the Western Wal. In 1934 he moved to Haifa and went into commerce. He reorganized the Bnei Brit Hacarmel office and served as secretary. He was a member of the parents’ committee of the Reali School and a member of the Haganah committee in the city. He was an honorary member of the Supreme Committee of the Scottish “Habonim” Bureau in Edinburgh. All his acquaintances liked and respected him. During the 1936-1939 riots, on 28 Nisan, April 17, 1939, he died and was buried in Haifa. He left behind a wife and three children. His name was immortalized in the Encyclopedia of Pioneers and Builders.
