Rosman (Mogilevitch), Israel (Kaluger)
Was born in 1864 in the city of Kobe, Russia, to the Mogilevitz family, the eldest of the children. When he reached the age of military service he was adopted by his uncle to gain an exemption as an only child. “Kaluger” was renamed “Kaluga.” With the national and Zionist awakening in Russian Jewry and the founding of the Bilu movement, Israel immigrated to Palestine in 1884. He came to the settlement of the Biluim settlement and was the first worker, where he also approached the Feinberg and Belkind families and became the son of their household, and soon became fond of the moshavim because of his kindness and diligence. On one of the nights in August 1890, when he was on duty, he heard the sound of footsteps and began to move towards the sound, and at that moment a shot was heard and he fell, wallowing in his blood. For a month lhe lay on his deathbed until his death on the 27th of Menachem Av 5650. The shooting is unclear and it is not known if Israel was shot by an Arab or by mistake. He was the first victim of Hashmira in Gedera and his grave dedicated the cemetery of the colony, where the Gedera was later built. Israel was immortalized in the books “One Hundred Years of Preservation in Israel” and “The Family of the Land”.
