A young man from the Jewish agricultural colony of Zikhron Ya’akov describes Palestine at the outbreak of the war in 1914: conscription into the Ottoman army, the humiliation of Jewish and Christian soldiers in labour battalions, the march against the Suez Canal, requisitions, locusts and the persecution of the settlements, and his eventual escape to tell the outside world.
A short, urgent wartime testimony from a family closely tied to Zionist history. Download the free EPUB.