Kahane, Asher

Son of Adele and Pinchas. He was born in Berlin in Germany in 1934. In 1934 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he worked in carpentry in the city of Haifa and was a counselor in the Bnei Akiva movement, and later joined a group that settled in the Carmel forests near the village of Daliyat al-Carmel, where he worked as a laborer and later as a guard. Since his desire to be a farmer working his land seemed to him to be the best place for settling this goal, and he wrote in one of his letters: “We shall establish here a tribe of mountain dwellers. . . which is the natural, strongest and most beautiful character. . . after all these things, we will continue to build.” After the murder of the guard, Mordechai Beer in March 1938, eight security guards, including Asher Kahane, set out for Haifa in order to bring supplies, as usual, with them. They were ambushed on the way and ten people died. He was twenty-five years old when he died. He was survived by his parents and five sisters and he was immortalized in a book commemorating the fallen of the Carmel Forests.