ABSTRACT
THE parents of Sarah and Aaron were among the founders of Zichron Yaacov, one of the first settlements of modern Palestine. The settlers, humble trades-people, had come in a group from Rumania in 1882. There were only a few dozen of them and they hardly knew what Palestine, then a remote, neglected Asiatic province of the vast Ottoman Empire, was like. They had no adequate means of their own. They knew nothing about agriculture or colonization. They knew not one of the languages spoken in Palestine. They were simply filled with love for the land of Israel, with a desire to redeem its soil, and with it their lives and the lives of their children.
