Story of Unhappy Arab Princess
By MOSHE RON
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Shaarey Zedek 'Great Weekend'
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The Arab princess lived in
Israel more than 20 years
since the war in Algeria. She
lived for some years in a
kibutz and afterwards worked
as a nurse in the Kaplan
Hospital in Rehovot.
Only few people in Israel
knew, that she was not a
Jewess, but a princess of
high nobility dating back to
the Arab kings of Algeria.
Only after her recent death
did Israeli journalist Michael
Assaf reveal her background.
The family of Abdel Kader
(in 1850 the last Algerian
king was deposed by the
French) had lived in Damas-
cus, Lebanon an'd France.
The wealthy family owned
property in those countries
and in the Upper Galilee in
Palestine.
In 1918, Bahia's father was
murdered by Arab agents of
the famous British General
Lawrence of Arabia.
She fled to Lebanon, and
started to separate from her
Arab culture and studied
French literature. Later she
studied Russian literature
and under its i of luence
started to plead for reliev-
ing the economic-social posi-
tion of the Arab felahin (who
till the grounds of rill
people). She even tried to
organize in Lebanon a move-
ment of intellectuals, to visit
villages and teach the poor
felahin culture and morals.
Afterwards she turned com-
munist.
In the thirties she was a
student at the American Um
versity in Beirut and became
a friend of a Jewish student
from Haifa. The friend told
her about Jewish settlements
in Palestine, the aims of
Zionism and ,pioneer life in
the kibutz. Natasha was dis-
appointed in Arab society and
her family, and did not be-
lieve that she could realize
her ideals in the primative
Arab countries.
She decided to go to Pales-
tine and to join a kibutz. But
the Second World War broke
out and she stayed in Beirut
and worked in a hospital.
Natasha arrived in Pales-
tine in 1946. The late Mayor
of Haifa Abba Hushi helped
her to join the Kibutz Ramat
Yohanan, but the Arab prin-
cess from a religious Moslem
f a mil y, individualist and
bearer of cosmopolitan com-
munist views, could not adapt
herself to the conditions of
the kibutz.
She tried to do physical
work and to integrate into the
kibutz society. She had some
good friends, and learned
fluent Hebrew. She then met
a Jew in Haifa and fell in
love with him. But he was
killed by Arab terrorists
while trying to defend Haifa.
Natasha changed, life in the
kibutz became hard for her
and she felt herself a strang-
er. She remained an ardent
communist and a partisan of
Stalin even in the time of
purges in the Soviet Union
and the alleged plot of Jew-
ish doctors.
When Iraqi troops attacked
Ramat Yochanan and Mish-
mar Haemek, she worked as
a nurse to treat the wounded.
When she learned that there
was some opposition in the
kibutz against her becom-
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BAHIA KADER
ing a full member, she left
Cong. Shaarey Zedek will under the auspices of the
begin its Great Weekend Lec- Shaarey Zedek Cultural Com-
ture Series on "The Three mission. Admission is free.
Ways of Judaism," with a
talk by Rabbi Louis Jacobs,
rabbi of the New London
Synagogue, England, 8:30
p.m. Dec. 6 at the synagogue.
Rabbi Jacobs will speak on
"The Kabala — the Mystical
Approach."
Born in Manchester, Eng-
land, Dr. Jacobs received his
training at the yeshiva of
Manchester and Gateshead,
and his degree from London
University.
He taught at the Golders
Green Beth Hamidrash and
at Jews' College in London.
He was director of the Socie-
RABBI LOUIS JACOBS
ty for the Study of Jewish
Theology and is a lecturer in
Talmud at the Leo Baeck
College and co-editor of the
Littman Library of Jewish
It's Nice
Classics.
He has published extens-
To
ively on studies of Maimon-
ides Creed, questions of faith
Joe Slatkin's
and about the Kabala and
Hasidism.
On Dec. 7 Rabbi Jacobs will
speak on "The Halakha—the
Legal Approach" at morning
services; and on "The Ag-
gada—the Philosophical Ap-
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His visit is sponsored by
the Sarah W. Davidson and
William M. Davidson Family
and moved to a missionary
school for nurses in Naza-
reth. She studied nursing for
three years and was active
in the Communist Party in
Nazareth. During this time
she met Jewish communist
leaders Shmuel Mikcunis
and Dr. Moshe Sneh several
times.
She moved to Rehovot and
worked as a nurse in the
Kaplan Hospital for over
20 years.
Natasha stopped her activ-
ity in the Communist Party
and after a few years re-
ceived Israeli citizenship.
She often visited her friends
in the Kibutz Ramat Yocha-
nan.
Ten months ago Natasha
fell ill. She died at the age
of 59 and was buried in the
Moslem cemetery of Ramle.
She left her apartment and
We fall into a familiar er-
furniture to the Communist ror, using the wrong yard-
Party, which arranged her stick with which to measure
funeral.
goodness.
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