Dow Hoz
Dow Hoz ( Hebrew דב הוז; * 1894 in Orscha , Russia ; † December 29, 1940 near Tel Aviv ) was a Zionist fighter and aviation pioneer.
He was a leader of socialist Zionism (labor Zionism) and one of the founders of the Hagana .
Life
Dow Hoz emigrated to Palestine with his family in 1906 .
Together with Schaul Avigur , Elijahu Golomb and Moshe Sharet , whose sister Hoz later married, he belonged to a group from 1909 that organized security oversight in and around Tel Aviv .
During the First World War , Hoz served in the Autumn Army and was sentenced to death for his continued activities in securing the Jewish settlements in Palestine. He escaped execution of the sentence by fleeing to the British-occupied southern part of Palestine, where he joined the Jewish Legion .
From 1920 to 1930 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Hagana, from 1931 to 1940 a member of the National Command Center. As the leading head of the national movement, he was a member of a group that later founded the Ahuda Avoda party .
In 1935 he became the Vice Mayor of Tel Aviv.
He was the founder and head of the Awiron organization , which introduced aviation to Palestine. The company trained pilots and founded airlines. She belonged to the Hagana.
On the way back from a visit to Haganah members in prison in Akkon prison , Hoz died in a car accident in December 1940 in which his wife Riwka Hoz , his daughter Tirza Hoz , his sister-in- law Zviah Schertoq , his niece Ora Borodovsky and his friend Jizchaq Ben Jaaqov died.
Honors
The Fede , a ship of the La Spezia affair , got its name as the Hagana code name for the crossing to Palestine. The Kibbutz Dorot in the Negev has been named in honor of Dow, Rivka and Tirza Hoz. Sde Dow Airport in Tel Aviv is also named after Hoz .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mordecai Naor: Eretz Israel. Könemann, Cologne, 1998, ISBN 3-89508-594-4 , page 217
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoz, Dow |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoz, Dov; Hos, Dov |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Zionist fighter and aviation pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orsha |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1940 |
| Place of death | near Tel Aviv |