Manya Shochat was a Russian-Jewish politician who was a leading figure in the Zionist movement. She was influential in the establishment of kibbutzim in Palestine in the early 1900s, which laid the gr
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Manya Shochat, at the seventh Zionist Congress, Basel, 1907
Manya Shochat on a stamp issued on the 60th anniversary of HaShomer, 1970.
Hashomer was a Jewish defense organization in Palestine founded in April 1909. It was an outgrowth of the Bar-Giora group and was disbanded after the founding of the Haganah in 1920. Hashomer was resp
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…cover by Bar Giora a newly formed underground militia founded by Israel Shochat and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. The following year Bar Giora reinvented itself as HaShomer. Its goal was to take over the responsibility of guarding Jewish settlements which had previously been using local watchmen. She married Israel Shochat…
Members of Hashomer, 1909[citation needed]
Hashomer members from Merhavia 1915