EMIGRANTS FROM RUZHANY TO MOSHAV EKRON
FIRST FOUNDERS OF MAZKERET BATIA (EKRON)
The first settlers were 11 families from RUZHANY, 110 persons altogether.
A year later another 7 families joined from RUZHANY ,RUSSIA and RUMANIA.
1885
1. Israel Tzvi ARKIN
2. Yehoshua RUBINSTEIN
3. Yaacov LASKOVSKI
4. Yaacov ARKIN
5. Avraham Yaacov GELMAN
6. Baruch Tzvi BERENSTEIN
7. Ephraim SHKOLNIK
8. Moshe MELER
9. Caim Moshe PRESS
10. Yechezkel LEVIN
11. Dov RADAVSKI
1886
1. Mardechai NEIMAN
2. Aharon Zelig LEVITA
3. Shaul HELZNER
4. Gershon SHERESHEVSKI
5. Yaacov GOLD
6. Shlomo WEIBERG
7. Eliyahu Moshe HERSHKOVITZ
Source: Names extracted from Rozinoi: Sefer Zikaron li-kehilat Rozinoi veha-sevivah. Tel Aviv, 1957 .
Pictures from Ran Aaronsohn, Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization. The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2000.
Prepared by 1997 Amy Levinson z"l
Updated by RAF 22 June 2002