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Alexander Zaïd (1886 − 10 July 1938) was one of the founders of the Jewish defense organizations Bar Giora and Hashomer, and a prominent figure of the Second Aliyah. ==Biography== Zaïd was born in 1886 in Zima, a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia. His father had been deported from Vilna to Siberia due to revolutionary activity and his mother was a Subbotnik.〔(Russia's Subbotnik Jews get rabbi ) Ynet, Published: 12.09.10〕 In 1889 the family moved to Irkutsk. In 1901 they returned to Vilna, where his father remarried. Two years later, the father died, too. The orphaned teenager met Michael Helpern, a First Aliyah pioneer sent to Vilna to promote immigration to Palestine. Zaid moved to Palestine in 1904 under the auspices of the Zionist Labour Movement. He worked at the winery in Rishon Letzion, where he met Israel Shochat, as a construction worker in Ben Shemen and a stonemason in Jerusalem.〔(The end of a legend )〕 In 1907, he helped establish the first Jewish watchmen's organization, the clandestine "Bar-Giora".〔(Metal thieves vandalize Alexander Zeid's monument )〕 Two years later, in 1909, he was one of the founders of Hashomer, a Jewish defense organization, to safeguard the Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine. Zaid and his wife Tzippora were founders of Kibbutz Kfar Giladi in the Galilee, which became a center of Hashomer's underground activity. In 1926, following the establishment of the Haganah, David Ben-Gurion demanded that Hashomer become subordinate to the new organization and transfer its weapons to it. Zaid and his wife supported this move, but most members of Kfar Giladi were opposed to it. As a result, the Zaids were forced to leave the kibbutz with their four young children.〔(The end of a legend )〕 Zaid moved to Sheikh Abreik in the Valley of Jezreel, where he worked as a watchman, overseeing the lands of the JNF. The residents of the Arab village at the site had been evicted a few years earlier when the Sursuk family of Beirut sold the land.〔Aryeh L. Avneri, ''The claim of dispossession: Jewish land-settlement and the Arabs'', p122. The census of 1922 showed 111 Muslims living there (Census report, Table XI).〕 The locality was known to have archaeological importance but had never been excavated. In 1936, Zaid reported that he had found a breach in the wall of one of the known caves which led to another cave decorated with inscriptions.〔Benjamin Mazar, ''Beth She'arim : Report on the Excavations during 1936-1940'', Vol. I, p27.〕 This led to the excavation of the site and its identification as Beit She'arim. Zaïd survived two attacks by Arabs, but on the night of 10 July 1938, he was killed〔(Alexander Zaid (1886-1938) ) Jewish Agency〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Zaïd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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