ABSTRACT
The national spirit glowed with holy ecstasy. And instead of their heroes came our heroes who gave their lives for the Jewish land and Jewish freedom. The condemned Jewish terrorist found a worthy heir in the Jewish Shomer. The terrorist denied his Jewish name, and went to the gallows with a Christian stamp on his brow. The Shomer changed his ghetto name to a national name—one symbolic of our past history and future hopes. The Shomrim were the first defenders of the Jewish strongholds in Palestine, the guards of the Jewish national treasure. Some of them fell while performing their voluntary duty. By the graves of the fallen Jewish workers and guards Jewish youth composed a new and glorious prayer—a prayer of freedom and hope, of pride and dignity, and this prayer was bequeathed to the world in the form of a book.
