Avshalom Feinberg (Hebrew: אבשלום פיינברג, 23 October 1889 – 20 January 1917) was one of the leaders of Nili, a Jewish spy network in Ottoman Palestine helping the British fight the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Feinberg was born in Gedera in the Land of Israel, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. His parents were Israel "Lolik" Feinberg, among the founders of Rishon LeZion, Hadera and Tel Aviv, and Fanny Feinberg (née Belkind). He had two sisters, Tzila and Shoshanna.[1] Among his close relatives were Joseph Feinberg, a paternal uncle who was a founder of Rishon LeZion, and Olga Hankin (née Belkind), a maternal aunt who was a feminist, midwife and redeemer of lands.[2]
Feinberg studied in France.[3] He then returned to work with Aaron Aaronsohn at the agronomy research station in Atlit. Soon after war began, the four Aaronsohn siblings (Sarah Aaronsohn, Rivka, Alexander, and Aaron) founded the Nili underground along with Feinberg. They were later joined by Yosef Lishansky and others. In 1915 Feinberg traveled to Egypt and made contact with the British Department of Naval Intelligence. In 1917, he again went to Egypt, on foot. He was apparently killed on his way back by a group of Bedouins near the British front in Sinai, close to Rafah.[4] His fate was unknown until after the 1967 Six-Day War, when his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket.[5]
In 1979 a new Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula, Avshalom, was named after him. It was abandoned in 1982 after the Camp David Accords, but a new village by the same name was founded in Israel in 1990.
^"Avshalom Feinberg". 23 October 1889.
^Man, Nadav (7 April 2008). "Feinberg family: Back to first days of Zionism – part 1". Ynetnews. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
^Engle, Anita (1959). The Nili Spies. London: The Hogarth Press. pp. 30–32.
^Katz, Shmuel (2007). The Aaronsohn Saga. Jerusalem: Gefen. pp. 144–145. ISBN 978-965-229-416-6.
^Birnbaum, Ervin (1990). In The Shadow Of The Struggle. Jerusalem: Gefen. p. 73. ISBN 978-9652290373.
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