Killing of Moshe Barsky
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Moshe Barsky was the first member of a Zionist kibbutz to be killed by a Bedouin.
Memorial erected at Degania Alef on the centennial of Barsky's death
Degania Alef
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Degania Alef is a kibbutz in northern Israel. The Jewish community was founded in 1910, making it the earliest Labor Zionist farming commune in Palestine. Its status as "the mother of all kibbutzim" i
Killing of Moshe Barsky
…was born in 1895 in Skvyra, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire. He immigrated to Ottoman Palestine along with his sister in 1912. Barsky was a member of Degania Alef, the first kibbutz established by Jewish Zionist settlers. It was founded in 1910. He was 18 years old when he was killed with signs indicating that…
Part of the 1912 compound
The original wooden shack at Umm Juni, 1910
Wooden shack (recent reconstruction) at Umm Juni
Degania. 1925