Nisanov, Yehezkel

Son of Shoshana and Shimon. He was born in 1886 in the city of Tamir-Khan-Shura in the Caucasus to a family of “Mountain Jews.” He grew up in a dilapidated home and was forced to go to work. At the age of thirteen he went to Baku to study sewing with a Jewish tailor and, under the influence of his fellow workers, joined the Russian Social Democratic Party and later, insisting that there was no future for Jews in the diaspora, he moved to the Poalei Zion movement. In 1906 he immigrated to Israel after a year’s journey, arriving in Haifa and then walking to Zichron Yaakov. He was one of the first founders of the Hashomer organization, and after his marriage he moved to the Galilee, where he was involved in guarding and purchasing land, and when the land of Pula (Merhavia) was purchased, he was sent there to assist in work and in guarding. Yehezkel and Zvi Becker from Yavne’el left Yavne’el in a cart to distribute weapons in the Galilee moshavot, and on the way between Merhavia and Beit Gan, Yechezkel was murdered in a gun battle with an Arab gang that attacked them from an ambush. In the words of his friend, “He was quiet by nature, spoke little and humbled himself, and in Hebrew he saw the appearance of everything and his simplicity and humility achieved what others did not achieve with sharpness. There was a kind of gentleness and quiet in this person, and he was so loved. ” His name was immortalized in the books “Yizkor – A Monument to the Fallen of the Hebrew Workers in Eretz Israel”, Memories of Israel, “Hashomer Book”, “Fifty Years of Settlement in the Lower Galilee” and “Dreamers and Warriors.”