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THE “ABRARIAN GROUP” WAS A TRAINING GROUP OF THE EASTERN WORKERS ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR OF THE 1935” BY THE VETERANS OF THE RELIGIOUS-ABIDING AND ARAB MOVEMENTS IN THE EASTERN GALICIA IN POLAND. IT WAS CALLED IN THE HONOR OF RABBI AVRAHAM ISAAC KOOK (WHO WAS STILL ALIVE). THE GROUP BEGAN ITS WAY NEAR THE VILLAGE OF PINS, AND IN 1943 THE KIBBUTZ ESTABLISHED THE VILLAGE OF ETZION.

HISTORY OF HISTORY
THE GROUP WAS FOUNDED ON A HILL NEAR THE RELIGIOUS SEAT OF THE PINES VILLAGE. MOST MEMBERS OF THE GROUP IMMIGRATED FROM POLAND DURING THE NAZI REGIME IN GERMANY. MANY OF THEM HAVE PLUCKED ELEPHANTS, WHILE THEIR FAMILIES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.

THE GROUP SAT FOR ABOUT SEVEN YEARS, AND ITS MEMBERS TRAINED THEMSELVES FOR MANUAL LABOR, MAINLY IN AGRICULTURE, AND FOR THE LIFE OF COLLECTIVE SHARING. IN A LARGE PART OF ITS EXISTENCE, THE GROUP SUFFERED A LACK OF WORK, AND WAS FORCED TO SEND "WORKOUTS" TO DISTANT PLACES SUCH AS THE HILL OF ADA, HER ROOM, A SOUVENIR OF HER DAUGHTER AND HER FAMILY, AND HER FRIENDS WERE PARTNERS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE HEBREW WORK. DESPITE THE CRISES AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS, THE GROUP SUCCEEDED IN MAINTAINING AND MAINTAINING THE USSR-1943 AS A HUNDRED SOULS.

SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ABRAHAM GROUP WERE MEMBERS OF THE DEFENCE GROUP AND WERE CARRIED OUT MILITARY TRAINING, AND EVEN PARTICIPATED IN THE ATTACK ON THE IAEA HILL IN THE U.S.-N. 11 JULY 1938. PRIOR (AS DR. AIR, MAY 1938) THE GROUP WAS KILLED, IN THE DEFENSE OF THE HANUKKAH GROUP, AND ANOTHER FRIEND, A 16-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS KIDNAPPED ALONG WITH TWO BOYS FROM THE HILL OF ADA, AND THEIR THREE WERE MURDERED.

THE BACKGROUND OF MOST MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WAS FOLLOWERS, AND IT HAD AN EFFECT ON THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE GROUP. THE SABBATHS WERE SPONGE IN THE APOSTLES THAT INFLUENCED EVEN THEIR OLD NEIGHBOR, THE SEAT OF THE VILLAGE OF PINS. THIS ATMOSPHERE WAS A SLIGHTLY UNUSUAL PHENOMENON IN THE RELIGIOUS COLLECTIVE SETTLEMENT OF THAT TIME, WHICH WAS COMPOSED OF GERMAN EXPORTERS.

FOR SEVEN YEARS, THE GROUP WAITED FOR A DAY TO BE ASSIGNED TO A PERMANENT SETTLEMENT. THEIR DREAM WAS TO SETTLE IN FERTILE LANDS WITH ABUNDANT WATER, SIMILAR TO THE SAMARITAN AREA WHERE HE SAT AND HIS WORK WERE KILLED. IN THE EARLY 1940S, THE GROUP WAS ORDERED TO SETTLE ON THE LAND OF THE EXISTING FOUNDATION NORTH OF KHANAN HOUSE, BUT IN NOVEMBER 1942, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE JASZIG WHO WAS PERSUADED TO SETTLE IN THE VILLAGE OF HEBRON WHOSE LANDS WERE PLANTED IN THE EVENTS OF HIS COUNTRY AND THERE WAS A GREAT CONCERN THAT THE LAND THERE WOULD FALL INTO ARAB HANDS, AND THEREFORE THE POINT NEAR THE HANAN HOUSE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE NIRO GROUP OF LIFE, WHICH ESTABLISHED NEIR WITH THE PEOPLE.

“THE EXISTING FOUNDATION” DECIDED TO ESTABLISH A KIBBUTZ SETTLEMENT VILLAGE, WITH THE ASSUMPTION THAT ONLY A COMPANY BASED ON SHARING, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE THE MANY DIFFICULTIES THAT STAND ON THE MOUNTAIN, AND WITH THE ASSUMPTION THAT NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS CAN HELP SETTLEMENT MORE THAN PRIVATE SETTLEMENTS. AND BECAUSE IT WAS FEARED THAT THE GREAT HARDSHIPS THAT THE MOUNTAIN OVER ITS SETTLERS WERE DETERRED EVEN GROUPS OF PIONEERS, THEY THOUGHT THAT RELIGIOUS SETTLERS WOULD HELP THE RELIGIOUS FEELING OF RENEWING LIFE IN THE AREA BETWEEN JERUSALEM AND HEBRON, TO WHICH RELIGIOUS LONGINGS WERE DIRECTED THROUGHOUT THE GENERATIONS.

THE OFFER CAUSED MANY ARGUMENTS AND DILEMMAS. AT THE TIME OF THE DISCUSSIONS, THE GROUP WAS COMPOSED OF FRIENDS, SOME OF WHOM HAD ALREADY PASSED THE AGE OF THIRTY AND HAD FAMILIES. OTHERS, WHO THIS CLOSELY CAME FROM EUROPE FROM CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMPS, MOST OF THEM IN THE NEBULOUS SHIPS IN TULLY, AND SOME OF THEM EVEN WENT THROUGH DETENTION CAMPS IN CYPRUS AND THE MIDDLE AGES. THESE CAME IN THE HOPE OF FINDING A BATH IN A WARM AND PEACEFUL HOME. AND HERE WE ARE NOW CALLED FOR A WAR IN THE ROCK AND THE BARRACKS, WATERLESS, AND DETACHED FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AT THE TIME. AT SOME POINT, IT SEEMED THAT THE DEBATES WOULD DIVIDE THE GROUP.

THE DECISION EVENTUALLY FELL TO THE EXCITED FACE OF PEACE CARLYEL, FROM THE HEADS OF THE GROUP, AND THE PROMINENT ACTIVISTS OF THE AKIVA MOVEMENT, A MAN WHO COMBINED HIM WITH GREAT PRACTICAL ABILITY AND LEADERSHIP CAPACITY WITH A POETIC AND PASSIONATE SOUL.
THESE WERE HIS WORDS:
“AS I SIT HERE, I AM AS IF YOU HEAR THE CEILING OF THE TRAIN WHEELS THAT LEAD OUR FAMILIES, OR OUR FRIENDS TO THE LABOR CAMPS OR DEATH CAMPS, TO DESTRUCTION.