"The First Guards of Hope"

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THE FIRST GUARDS OF THE OPENING OF HOPE WERE THE FIRST SIX PERMANENT GUARDS, WHO DEFENDED THE CITY, OPENED HOPE.

BACKGROUND
THE FIRST INHABITANTS OF THE OPENING OF HOPE, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN 1878, WAS A FOREIGN PLANT AROUND THEM. MOST OF THE LANDS THEY HAD ACQUIRED WERE PAST LAND FROM EVIL, AND THE BEDOUINS WHO HAD NOT RUSHED TO WITHDRAW FROM THE LAND, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT WAS SOWN BY THE SETTLERS. THE RESIDENTS OF THE NEIGHBORING VILLAGES, WHO DEALT WITH AGRICULTURE THEMSELVES, DID NOT RETURN TO THEIR JEWISH NEIGHBORS. THE NEED FOR PERMANENT GUARDIANS WAS THEREFORE ONE OF THE FIRST NEEDS OF THE COLONY, AND IT WAS SET IN THE OPEN OF HOPE COMPANY WITH ITS ESTABLISHMENT: “THE MORNING GUARDS WILL BE SUED, YEARS WILL STAND FOR THE GUARD AND TURN AROUND THE AREA IN WEAPONS IN THEIR HANDS, THE PEASANTS OF THE SETTLEMENT WILL AGREE TO DETERMINE ALL THOSE WHO WILL COME TO MY WAGES – FOR THE MINORITY TO BE HEARD, AND THE LORD HAS TROUBLE. IN THE 41 YEARS UNTIL THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEFENCE ORGANIZATION IN 1920, SIX PERMANENT GUARDS WERE USED: YEHUDA RAB-BAN EZRA, A FOREIGN-FUNDED JACOB, DAUD ABU YOSEF, SANDER SHARP, COMFORT KUPELMAN AND AVRAHAM SHAPIRO. THE PRESERVATION OF THE OPENING OF HOPE CREATED THE MODEL THAT USED THE “GUARD” ORGANIZATION.

THE COLONY OPENED HOPE FOR A SMALL HEBREW SETTLEMENT, A NEW PHENOMENON IN ITSELF, AMONG LARGE ARAB VILLAGES: IN THE EAST – JEWISH, IN THE NORTH – PAJA, IN THE SOUTH – EGYPT FROM THE SOUTH TO THE LEVEL OF THE GARDEN OF THE DAY AND SKIING – NEAR THE LIGHT OF JUDEA OF THE DAY, AND IN THE WEST – THE BEDOUIN TRIBE ABU CHICH, WHICH IS WEAKENED BY THE SEA. THE AREAS THAT WE BOUGHT ARE BUILDING HOPE HAVE BEEN WORKING IN THE PAST BY FAMILIES WHO SAT IN THE VILLAGES AROUND, AND BEDOUINS WERE USED TO UNDERMINE THEIR FLOCKS IN AREAS THAT WERE NOW ARM FIELDS. THE STAGES ACQUIRED BY THE NEW RESIDENTS IN COMMON, TO WORK AND COWS TO MILK, AND HELD IN IOWA AND IN COMMON, WERE VICTIMS OF REPEATED ROBBERY ATTEMPTS.

ABOUT A YEAR AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COLONY, AFTER THE MALARIA SANK IN ITS RESIDENTS AND THE RISING HIHRKON DESTROYED THEIR HOMES, THE PEASANTS ESTABLISHED A NEW SETTLEMENT, YAHUD, WHO ROSE IN THE ARAB JEWISH AREA, AND IN ORDER TO REACH THEIR LANDS, THEY HAD TO MOVE INTO THE WORKING AREAS OF THEIR NEIGHBORS. ALL OF THESE HAVE LED TO DISPUTES, ENSLAVEMENTS, IN ADDITION TO THE ATTEMPTS OF THEFT AND ROBBERY IN THE TERRITORY OF THE NEW COLONY.

THE FIRST FALLING

IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE COLONY THERE WERE MANY SECURITY EVENTS IN THE OPENING OF HOPE, OR AS THE FIRST GUARD, YEHUDA RAB, DID NOT PASS A DAY WITHOUT ROBBERIES, AND NIGHT WERE “FRIENDSHIP VISITS” IN THE FIELD OR IN THE COURTYARD, TRYING TO STEAL THE FLAMES, BUT THESE WERE ATTEMPTS OF INDIVIDUALS, NOT ORGANIZED AND PLANNED ACTION.

ON MARCH 29, 1886, AN ORGANIZED ABORTION OF THE NEIGHBORING VILLAGES, ESPECIALLY FROM A JEWISH VILLAGE, TOOK PLACE ON THE COLONY. A FEW DAYS EARLIER, MORE THAN TEN YOUNG PEOPLE HAD OPENED HOPE, WITH THEIR HEADS, THE GUARDS OF JUDEA RAB AND SANDER SHARP, FROM A RABBIT TO THE SHEPHERDS WHO HAD COME FROM THE MARMARA IN THE COLONY’S FIELDS, BEAT THEM, AND TOOK SEVERAL BOYS IN CAPTIVITY, AS WELL AS A FEW DEATHS. THE PRISONERS BROUGHT TO THE POLICE BUILDING IN JAFFA. THE INFILTRATION WAS THEREFORE A RESPONSE TO THE DEFENDANT, AND NO LESS, TO THE POLICE COMPLAINT. ABOUT 200 VILLAGERS ATTACKED THE COLONY, BEAT PEOPLE ON THE STREET, BROKE WINDOWS, STOLE HOUSEHOLD VESSELS AND CHOPPED TREES. BRENT, A FOUNDER OF A HOPE-OPENER, DESCRIBES THAT “THE PEASANTS WERE NOT READY FOR THIS INFLAMATION, AND THE COLONY WAS ALMOST COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY THE WILD SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT. A LITTLE BIT MORE AND THERE WAS A DAUGHTER IN LAZ AND HER SONS TO KILL AND CHEW.” ACCORDING TO ABRAHAM, THIS FOREST WAS “THE FIRST ORGANIZED ABORTION ON A JEWISH COLONY,” A PHENOMENON THAT INCREASED AND WENT WITH THE EXPANSION OF THE SETTLEMENTS. IN THE CHAPEL RACHEL SHARPENED THE LEVITES, SAMANDER'S MOTHER SHARPENED.

THE GUARDS

JUDAH

YEHUDA RAB (1948-1858) GREW UP IN A FARM IN HUNGARY, SO HE KNEW THE AGRICULTURAL WORK FROM HIS CHILDHOOD.

WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, THE SETTLERS IN THE DOOR OF HOPE, AND HE KNEW HIS POWER