Sara+Aharonson

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 * Full Name:** Sara Aharonson.
 * Parents name:** Efraim Fischel and Malka Aharonson.
 * Year of birth:** 1890
 * Where born:** Israel
 * Year of death:** 1917
 * Where Died:** Zichron Yaakov
 * Profession:** underground activist
 * What she is famous for:** Sara was an underground activist in Nili.She helped the British fight the Turkish

=Article= Sara Aharonson was born in 1890 in Zicron Yaakov. She had 3 brothers, Zvi, Ahron, Alexander and one sister, Rivka. Her father's name was Efraim Fishel and her mother's name was Malka. Sara married a rich man from Hungary as a result she moved there. However when she was in Hungary, she saw that Israel was suffering and she couldn't stay far away without doing anything. Her family told her to stay there, but she insisted on coming back to Israel. Therefore, in 1915 she came back.When Sara was in Hungary she kept in contact with her family through letters. She wrote the truth under the stamp, so when the Turks checked the letter they didn’t see anything. After she came back, she decided that she couldn't remain without doing anything so she decided to join the NILI organization. At NILI they collected information about the Turks and passed the information to the British, they passed the information with an emissary to a boat sometimes someone was hanging white laundry in a specific way and the British were on a boat and when they understood the code they emitted smoke to confirm that they got the message.The Turks noticed that something wasn't right and offered a prize if someone would give them a clue, but no one informed on them. Sara's brother Ahron worked in Egypt and once Sara went to visit him, Ahron asked her to stay with him, but she didn’t want there is people to say that when there is no danger she stays in the country, but when there is danger she runs away. So on 17\07\1917 Sara came back. Everyone in Israel hoped that the Turks would leave the country but no one, except NILI, did anything. The people of Zicron Yaakov didn’t like what NILI was doing but no one informed on them, even when the Turks noticed that something wasn't right and offered a prize if someone would give them a clue, no one informed on them. NILI had a lot of members and Ahron was afraid that the Turks would catch NILI so he sent a letter to Sara is asking from her to come to Egypt, but Sara said that she wanted to be the last one that left Israel and not the first. Sara felt that the Turks were close, so, she asked the British to come sooner, but they didn’t answer her, so, she started destroying the important documents she had. When the Turks found her they didn’t find anything, they tortured her for 4 days and nights until she felt she couldn’t stand it anymore and decided to commit suicide. She asked the Turks to go into the shower where she wrote a letter. After that she shot into her mouth. The doctor tried to save her but he couldn’t. In her letter she wrote that Ahron needed to stay alive and tell the whole world how much they were suffering, she told him that he must take revenge. At the end the British won and controlled Israel, but they came too late to save Sara. A famous person said that he would always remember the Aharonson family as a special family a family that did anything to win. Sara was a woman who would do anything to accomplish her goals. She didn’t surrender, even at a very difficult time. She always knew what to do and helped others during the hard time.

=speech= My name is Sara and I want to tell you about my life. My whole life I loved Israel and my dream was that Israel will be free and there won't be any Turks. I married a man from Hungary and moved there. But I felt that I can't do anything to help Israel from fur away so I came back. When I was back in Israel I joined the NILI organization because I wanted to do something to help the country. The Turks were very hurtful and they hit every one they didn’t care if they hitting a little boy or a old lady. In NILI, I helped the country I dedicated my life to Israel because I think that Israel is our country and we can't give up our land. In order to help Israel, NILI sent secret codes to the British and told them about the Turks. At NILI we collected information about the Turks and passed the information to the British, we passed the information with an emissary to a boat sometimes someone was hanging white laundry in a specific way and the British were on a boat and when they understood the code they emitted smoke to confirm that they got the message. I collected the information and other people sent the information to the British. I think that my work in NILI is good and I hope that the British will come before it will be to late. My brother Ahron told me to run away because the Turks are close but I don’t want to run anymore anything because I think that Israel is above of everything and its better to die in a war or doing something for your country. I just want to tell you that if something happens to me, I want you to tell my story and that tell the world the story of NILI. I hope that we will leave here and we wont have a lot of war.

=Questionnaire= A: Yes I didn’t want to get married my family told me to do it and I wanted to come back because I know about the situation in the country.
 * Q: Are you sorry that you moved to with yore husband?**

A: I send them a letter and I got messages but I was scared that the Turks would catch us so I wrote under the stamp the important things.
 * Q: How did you stay connected with yore family in Israel?**

A: I saw the hard time in the country and I could not stand on the side with out doing anything.
 * Q: Why did you join the NILI organization?**

A: NILI collected information about the Turks army and send them to the British.
 * Q: What did NILI organization do to fight the Turks?**

A: We had a secret code and we pest the messages in a boat.
 * Q: How did you give the British the information without getting caught?**

A: I think that I was doing the right thing and the work I did justify the danger.
 * Q: Do you feel that you endangered the people of Zicron Yakov too much?**

A: Avshlom was good friend of mine and when he dies I felt very sad but I decided that he didn’t day for nothing and I need to immortalize hem.
 * Q: How did you feel after Avshlom die?**

A: No I don’t think it will help because the people that the Turks caught didn’t tell anything.
 * Q: Do you think that more people needed to commit suicide and then the Turks wouldn’t catch you?**

A: The Turks fond a letter and started to collect information.
 * Q: So why did the Turks catch you?**

A: I felt I cant suffer any more in my life and I was afraid to tell all the secrets I Know.
 * Q: Why did you decide to commit suicide?**

A: No because I felt that I suffered to much in my life
 * Q: Do you think it was a wrong decision?**

=Rationale= We chose Sara Aharonson because we like the time period. In addition, we think that it was important to fight and protect the country. So, today we can learn from the NILI organization to stick to ideologist. We chose Sara Aharonson and not another person from that time period because we want to do our project about a woman, and Sara is an example for a strong woman.

=Reflection=

Ruth
In the project I learned about Sara Ahronson and about that period in Israel. From this project I understand what the holiness of the country means in addition to learning about the ideology of Sara and Nili. I hope all the people in the world will learn about her. The project helped me to increase my vocabulary and improve my grammar. I had difficulty translating all the names because these names are in Hebrew.

Eidit
I learned from this subject about that time period when Nili helped the British into Palestine instead of the Turks. They stuck to their ideologies and they never quit. Sara committed suicide because she wanted to protect her country and friends. Even though she died her ideas continue on. This project taught me how to write a good project. In English it helped expand my vocabulary. In addition, I learned more about using the computer and the Internet. It was a bit difficult for me to use the Wiki, but after I learned about it, it went smoothly. All in all I learned a lot from this project and enjoyed it.

=Bibliography=

__Jewish virtual library,__ 2006, 29/11/06 <[|http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/SAaronsohn.html>.]

“Nili”, __Wikipedia.__ 2006, 29/11/06, <[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nili>.]

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פוירשטיין, אמיל. __נשים יהודיות.__ תל אביב: המתמיד, 1959

"ניל"י". __הבריטניקה החדשה לנוער__, כרך 12, עמ' 66.

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Written by: Ruth A. Eidit W.

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