Zeidlin, Michael (Michaeli)

Son of Mosel and Avraham Kalman. Born in 1896 in Aval, Lithuania, to a family of twelve boys and girls, he studied at the University of Leningrad and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1913. He worked in agriculture in various places in 1913 and was a member of a group of workers who worked in a vegetable garden on the Kinneret. The group fled to the Promised Valley in the eastern part of the Kinneret and worked there to cut trees for Turkish trains, and then joined a group that was supposed to settle on Samara land between Mahanayim and Mishmar Hayarden. In September 1918, with the end of the First World War, the armies of the Soviet Union withdrew and Mahanayim was in danger. Michaeli was sent with two other friends to Rosh Pina to obtain weapons in order to prepare for the defense of the Yishuv, and were attacked by Bedouins who wounded Michaeli. He died of his wounds on 22 Tishrei (28.9.1918). He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Tiberias and left parents, seven brothers and four sisters, and the story of his downfall was raised in the books “The History of the Haganah” “The Second Aliya”, “The Vision of the Settlement in the Galilee” and “The Marches 1918-1930”.