Lot (4) postcards - Members and leaders of Nili..

Lot (4) postcards - Members and leaders of Nili..
Condition; Very Good.

Avshalom Feinberg (1889-1937) was the founder of the Nili underground and his fiancee, Rivka Aharonson (1892-1981) was the youngest daughter of Malka and Efraim Aaronsohn, one of the founders of Zichron Yaakov, And the sister of agronomist Aaron Aaronsohn, founder and commander of the Nili spy organization, and of Sarah, Alexander, Zvi and Shmuel Aaronsohn. She was, according to her claim, Avshalom Feinberg's fiancee, who before he was murdered was also a key activist in the Nili organization. 

Sarah Aharonson (1890,- 1917) was a leader of the Nili underground, a Jewish spy network that operated for the British and against the rulers of the Land of Israel, Turks in World War I, in order to promote the establishment of independent Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

Nissan Rotman: (1894 - 1977). One of the founders of Hadera was one of the children of the Second Aliya. He was active in the Nili underground and was imprisoned in Damascus and was involved in land purchases in the Hadera area and was a public activist in that city.

Yosef Lishinsky (1890-1917), leader of the Nili organization, founder and leader of the Magen Organization, was sentenced to death by the Turks and executed by hanging in Damascus. 

Aaron Aaronsohn (1876-1919) was a botanist, agronomist, and geologist, the first Jewish scientist in Palestine, and head of the Nili spy underground.

Nili: "Netzach Yisrael Lo Ishakach" (Samuel I, Chapter 15, verse 29) is an underground organization established in 1915 and active in the Yishuv in Eretz Israel during World War I. At its peak the organization numbered less than 30 active members focused on the provision of intelligence services to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force - the British force that fought against the Ottoman Empire in the campaign against Sinai and the Land of Israel in order to leverage an intelligence link into a political asset In addition to espionage, Nili also engaged in smuggling money from abroad to the economy of the Yishuv, and after two years of activity the Ottomans uncovered the underground. After the Nili organization was exposed, the Ottomans punished and imprisoned many people who had nothing to do with its activities.