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Rishon LeZion: Pioneer of Israel's Pioneers
By SHULAMIT KORN
World Zionist
Press Service
JERUSALEM — Rishon
LeZion (the first to Zion) has
a unique status in Israel for
all the firsts which it can re-
cord, though it was actually
the second modern settle-
ment in Palestine, the first
being Petah Tikva (1878).
So, for example, in Rishon
in the 1880s Naftali Herz
Imber composed the na-
tional anthem, Hatikva.
There too, the national flag
was planned and impro-
vised from his talit by Israel
Belkind, the first of the
BILU pioneers.
With the help of those
symbols, history was made
when the settlers of Rishon,
founded in 1882, used them
to welcome the founder of
the Zionist Movement, Dr.
Theodore Herzl, on his first
visit to the country in 1898.
The same flag was pre-
sented in 1897 to the first
Zionist Congress at Basle by
Max Nordau, where it was
officially declared as the na-
tional flag.
It was in Rishon LeZion
where the first Hebrew-
speaking families lived,
the very first one being
that of Eliezer Ben-
Yehuda, the father of the
modern Hebrew lan-
guage, who stubbornly
forbade the speaking of a
foreign language in his
home. His first-born son,
Itamar Ben-Yehuda, be-
came the first Hebrew-
speaking child in the
modern world. Among
other firsts in Rishon
were the inauguration, in
1886, of the first Hebrew
school; in 1887 of the first
musical band, named,
grandly, The Rishon LeZ-
ion Orchestra, which was
used far and wide by the
Jewish settlers on all
happy occasions, and in
1896 of the first Hebrew
kindergarten.
There was always Jewish
settlement in the Promised
Land, ever since the de-
struction of the Temple.
Jerusalem, the Holy City,
was always populated by
Jews, and so were other
parts of the country. How-
ever, those who lived here,
as well as those who came
uninterruptedly ,during the
past centuries, had two
main purposes in mind: to
pray and to die here.
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The first settlers who set-
tled in Rishon LeZion were
different from their
forefathers. 'They came not
to die but to live in the
Promised Land, in spite of
the enormous difficulties
and hardships they
encountered, including the
lack of food and the most es-
sential factor, water.
For a long period they had
to buy their water at a high
price from Jaffa, and carry
it back home on the danger-
ous roads, sometimes at the
risk of their lives. When
,
they finally found the first
Rishon LeZion is shown during the first decade of
well, it was a revelation of the 20th Century.
such great significance to
them that it was decided to
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inscribe the event in their
emblem, and there it is ever
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since, the proud symbol of
Rishon LeZion: the drawing
of a well and the words ac-
companying it, "We have
found water!"
Those settlers of the
First Aliya who set the
foundation of Rishon
LeZion in 1882, against all
odds (about 20 first
families as wed as the 12
young BILU followers
4.41araitigew4v
who joined them a little
Apartment buildings in modern Rishon LeZion.
later) paved the way
through their courage for try and get some financial pretty sister and came on
the generations to come help to put them back on Aliya. It was he who
within the Zionist Move- their feet, after having in- started most of the edu-
ment. They are for Israel vested so badly in the land cational programs, who
what the Mayflower was they bought; Yosef Fein- cared for the spirit of the
berg succeeded in enlisting settlers, and who
for America.
Eitan Belkind, 80, is the the help of Baron Edmond founded the successful
nephew of Israel Belkind de Rothschild, who became movement to save or-
who coined the slogan of the their patron, and through phans of slaughtered
BILU movement, "Bney them he helped the whole of Jews from Europe.
In 1905, after the pog-
Yaacov Lehu Venelha" (0 Jewish Palestine.
The last was Eitan Bal- roms in Kishinev he
House of Jacob, come ye and
kind's uncle, Israel Belkind, brought back with him a
let us go -- Isaiah 2:5).
In his opinion there were a medical student at Har- whole group of children,
four settlers "of whom you kov, Russia. Some of the aged 4-13. In 1925, after the
can say: but for them, young students arrived at pogroms in Poland, he did it
maybe there would not be the conclusion that they had again, bringing back all the
Rishon, and who knows how to go back to their origins, orphans he could find.
things would have looked and Israel Belkind became Eventually, after having
their leader. He said they them at his own school for
now in Israel."
The first one was Zvi had to give an example to some time, he helped estab-
Hacohen Levontin, who the others, by going to lish the Aliyat Hanoar
contributed half the cost of Palestine themselves, not (Youth Aliya), which
started with those orphans,
the land they bought, the preaching to others.
He packed his things, and became one of the most
other half being paid by all
the others; an idealist, and a took along his younger important institutions in
man of means, his financial brother Shimshon the Zionist Movement and
help was vital for the new- (Eitan's father) and his the state of Israel.
born colony, especially after
they realized that the land
they had bought so dearly
was worth almost nothing,
parched, unsuitable for ag-
and the number 10 is
By RABBI SAMUEL FOX
riculture, sandy and full of
(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)
associated with the bread
swamps.
It is customary to take the in a number of ways.
There are 10 command-
The second one was - bread with both hands when
Yehuda Leib Hankin, pronouncing the traditional ments to be observed from
who showed his strength blessing over the bread (i.e. the time the seed of grain is
at the time of crises. Frus- Ha motzi). A number of rea- planted until it becomes
trated by the lack of sons are offered for this bread: For a second theme, ,/
there are 10 stages of action
water, the sicknesses practice.
First, any object over from the time of plowing of
• which took their terrible
_toll, and the useless land which a benediction is pro- the soil until the product
which they worked so nounced is taken in hand to takes the form of baked
arduously but to no avail, symbolize physically that bread.
Third, the benediction
there came a day when this is the object over which
the settlers wanted to we offer the blessing, e.g., pronounced over the bread
give up and leave. The the talit (prayer shawl), (i.e., Ha motzi) has 10 words
very same day Y.L. Han- tefilin, moror (bitter herbs in it. Fourth, the verse in
the Psalms 145:15).
kin started building his on Passover) and lulay.
Generally speaking, it is
house and said, "You
In some cases, when an
may all go. I shall never act follows the benediction, said to mean that the classic
commandments have not
place." the object involved in the
this
leave
Ashamed, the others fol- act is held in hand so that been violated in obtaining
lowed suit, starting the act and the benediction the bread, e.g. one did not
houses of their own, in- are as close together in time steal it, one did not kill to
get it, one did not covet its
stead of living in tents as as possible.
There are some possession, etc.
they had been doing.
The knife is taken away
The third was Yosef authorities who claim
Feinberg, an aristocratic that the bread is held in from the table before the
and intellectual youth, hand because the two Grace after meals is re-
they sent fo'ThirOpe to hands have 10 fingers cited. ' '
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Brahot Over Bread Involve
Link to Ten Commandments
whom
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