Katz, Arie-Zvi
Son of Malka (Elka) and Isaac. Born in 1865 in Siberia, Russia, to a family of foresters and wood traders. From the dawn of his childhood, he absorbed the love of nature and the work of the land. He attended elementary school and later went on to study at the Gymnasium. When he was fifteen, he joined a group of young people who aspired to immigrate to Eretz Israel and to cultivate their land. In 1881 he immigrated to Israel, settled in Beitaniya and became an agricultural laborer, then managed the orchards of the ICA in Zichron Yaakov, and in 1885 moved to Petach Tikva where he grew orchards and developed new trains. Following him, his parents arrived in Petach Tikva and his father became the chief rabbi of the moshava. After marrying the couple, the couple joined a group that in 1901 founded the moshava from Malhamia. At that time he studied photography and became a photographer for the Galilee. The first settlers experienced a long period of suffering: diseases, natural disasters and robber attacks. On 6 Iyar, April 24, 1920, she was attacked by Arab rioters, and the settlers were forced to evacuate, primarily to evacuate women and children, and Aryeh took his wife with her baby to Yavne’el. Their wagon was attacked by Arabs and Aryeh was killed. He was taken to eternal rest in the cemetery in Yavne’el, leaving a wife, nine boys and girls and eleven brothers and sisters. His biography is recorded in the Encyclopedia of Pioneers and Builders, and the circumstances of his downfall are written in the books Chaim Hazelah, Hashomer and Haganah History.
