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Dvorah Drechler, the Pioneering Jewish Soldier Who Died in Battle a Century Ago
Tel Hai’s other hero.
On the Hebrew calendar, Saturday was the 100th anniversary of the battle of Tel Ḥai, a Jewish farming village in the Galilee that was attacked and overrun by Arabs. The date is usually associated with the heroic stand made there by Joseph Trumpeldor, whose remarkable life was the subject of a recent essay in Mosaic. But among the other Jewish fighters who fell in battle was Dvorah Drechler, who in prior years had campaigned for the Zionist self-defense organization Hashomer (“The Watchman”) to allow women to participate in its patrols. Amit Naor writes:
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Dvorah Drechler, the Pioneering Jewish Soldier Who Died in Battle a Century Ago
Tel Hai’s other hero.