Son of Sarah and Ze’ev, one of the founders of Yesod Hama’ala. He was born in 1905. At the time of the difficult economic conditions, he was forced to leave the family farm and go to work in Petah Tikva, where he worked in the orchards, built a shack and married Rivka, Shulamit later decided to leave the work in the citrus orchards and became the Custodian of JNF land in the Zevulun Valley, where he lived in Acre for a while and during the bloody riots of 1936-1939, when the harassment of Jews increased and his life and his family’s life were threatened, In the neighborhood of Savinia (now Kiryat Bialik) in the Haifa Bay, and Israel was well acquainted with its Arab neighbors, knew their language and customs, And “Abaya” covered his body, enabling him to help the JNF to acquire and redeem land, and one of his duties as a guard was to prevent the Bedouin from buying possession of the JNF land through a settlement on them. Israel was able to use the weapons of the Krayot, and was responsible, sensitive and dangerous, and he filled it with great love and devotion, and among his fellow guards, as well as among the Arabs, he was known as Abu Deeb. On August 14, 1938, Israel handed over his mare to one of his fellow guards, an Arab guard who was a trusted friend, and he promised to return the next day. When he did not return the next day, Israel’s patience expired, took his cane into his hand, and went to the village of the guard, the village of Damun, to return his horse. The days of bloody riots, the dangerous roads, including Arab rioters. Israel did not return, and his body was not found or brought to Israel’s grave. Survived by his wife, son and daughter, two brothers and four sisters. In the course of tracing his lost tracks, his history has been reconstructed since he set out. It turned out that he had arrived at a Bedouin encampment that is located in the place where Tzur Shalom is currently located. Next to the encampment were four Bedouin who had grabbed him and tied him with his hands and feet. They led him to a spot about 50 kilometers from the ambush and murdered him. Since his disappearance, his son Ze’ev, with the help of Giora Zaid, the son of legendary guard Alexander Zaid, has made tremendous efforts for decades to discover his body. These efforts bore fruit when, on 27 March 1990, his bones were found in a cave between the village of Abelin and Yodfat, and the Bedouins living in that area knew that the body of a murdered Jewish guard was buried in the same cave, A laboratory test proved that these are the bones of Israel son of-Ze’ev, about fifty-two years after his murder, on May 15, 1990, his bones were brought to Israel’s grave in the Segula cemetery in Petah Tikva. The circumstances of Israel’s disappearance were published in the periodicals and in the books. In Ma’ariv, 11.5.1990, an article was published about the search and the discovery of the body.
