Korngold, Israel

Son of Chaim. He was born on the 25th of Shvat 1883 in the town of Krinky, near Bialystok, Poland. At the age of 17 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, worked first in the colonies of Judea and then moved to the Galilee and was one of the first workers to come to work in the Kinneret colony. After a while, he worked and worked at the Sejera farm in the Lower Galilee, and at the same time he was also a Po’alei Zion activist and one of the members of the Poalei Zion committee in the Galilee. However, he was particularly interested in Hebrew literature. On the eve of Pesach 5709 (April 5, 1909), Arab bandits from the vicinity attacked a group of Jewish workers and in a fiasco between them, one Arab was wounded and two days later he died of his wounds. Who were ambushed near the Sejera cemetery, took his rifle and then shot him and killed him Shimon Melamed was killed along with him in the mishaps, and Israel was brought to rest in Sejera and then transferred to the “Hashomer” cemetery in Kfar Giladi, The first victim of the “Hashomer” was recorded in the memorial plaque in the synagogue of Sejera, his name was also commemorated in the book Yizkor, edited by Y. Son of-Zvi, in the books “History of the Haganah”, “Sejera – Mr. “