Mishin, Bechor
Born in Bulgaria and immigrated to Palestine during the First Aliya. He worked as a laborer in Petah Tikva, and after a while left the moshava and became a farmer in Metula. The life of the farmers in Metula was very difficult. The Turkish government harassed them in a day, and their Druze and Mtawalite neighbors did not leave them at night. Robbery and looting were daily. The Arab guards of the colony did nothing to prevent the thefts. The farmers of the moshavah established a kind of “self-defense” and guarded by turn. In particular, the danger of theft increased after the harvest, when all the harvest was collected in piles to the threshing floor. Bechor was a diligent farmer who worked his land and saw her giving her fruit. He sowed with tears, short in Rina, but did not enjoy the fruit of his labor. One night, apparently during the month of Elul in 1900, when Bechor was on his guard, Druze attacked him, brutally raping him with swords and knives and abusing his body, and was severely wounded, tormented for a few days, until he died. Of Metula, was buried in the cemetery near the waterfall of the oven and left a wife, his memory is mentioned in the books “Before the Light of the Morning”, “Metula”, “Ruach VeHahil”, “History of the Hagana” and “
