Aaron aaronsohn

Aaron Aaronsohn (Hebrew: אהרון אהרנסון) (– 15 May 1919) was a Romanian-born Ottoman agronomist, botanist, and political activist, who lived most.
Aaron Aaronsohn was a Romanian-born Ottoman agronomist, botanist, and political activist, who lived most of his life in Ottoman Syria.
Aaronsohn was killed in an airplane crash over the English Channel on May 15, 1919.

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Aaron Aaronsohn

On 15th May, 1919, No.1 Communication Squadron lost Captain Elgie Blyth Barwise Jefferson and his civilian passenger Aaron Aaronsohn, an ardent Zionist, when their de Havilland DH.4 (H5894) crashed into the English Channel off Boulogne in foggy weather, on the way to the Paris Pace Conference.

The Harbour Master at Boulogne reported that a fishing boat heading for Boulogne had seen an aeroplane fall close by and the motor explode. They remained in the vicinity of the wreck for about an hour but saw no trace of the airmen.

Aaron Aaronsohn was born 21st May, 1876, in Bacau, Romania, but his family fled the pogroms when Aaron was six years old, escaping to Palestine where theybegan a new life as founders of Zichron Ya’aquov, a Jewish agricultural settlement under the patronage of Baron Rothschild. From childhood, Aaron collected specimens of the local plant life and after studying in France, became well-known as an agronomist. His discovery of “wild wheat” – a primitive grain that could thrive in dry conditions, led to worldwide recogni

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Aaron Aaronsohn

Jewish agronomist, botanist, and Zionist activist (1876-1919)

Aaron Aaronsohn (Hebrew: אהרון אהרנסון) (21 May 1876 – 15 May 1919) was a Romanian-born Ottoman agronomist, botanist, and political activist, who lived most of his life in Ottoman Syria. Aaronsohn was the discoverer of emmer (Triticum dicoccoides), believed to be "the mother of wheat."^[1] He founded and was head of the NILI espionage network.

Biography

Aaron Aaronsohn was born in Bacău, Romania, and brought to Palestine, then part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, at the age of six.^[2] His parents were among the founders of Zikhron Ya'akov, one of the pioneer Jewish agricultural settlements of the First Aliyah. He had two sisters, Sarah and Rivka,^[3] and a brother, Alexander.^[4]^[5] Aaronsohn was the first car-owner in Palestine and one of the first to own a bicycle, which he brought back from France.^[3] The languages Aaronsohn spoke at home were Yiddish and Hebrew, but he also knew English, Arabic, Turkish, French,

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NILI – an acronym for the biblical Hebrew phrase, Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yeshaker, meaning ‘The Eternal One of Israel will not Lie’ – was the World War One Jewish spy network in Palestine. In this fascinating study, Efraim Halevy, the former head of Mossad, argues that both the victory of the British Army led by General Allenby and the Balfour Declaration itself were in good measure the result of the first successful foray of the Jewish people into modern international intelligence-gathering and espionage.

In May 1916, London and Paris reached a secret agreement on the future of the region which later came to be known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, named after the two officials who negotiated it. The cause of the Jewish people was absent from that document, even though by that time the World Zionist Organisation led by Dr Chaim Weizmann (who was then living in Manchester) was feverishly trying to get the British government to recognise the interests of the Jews in their historic birthplace from which they had been exiled almost two thousand years before. Weizmann, himself