Jehoshua Chankin, one of the first Jewish settlers in Palestine, who devoted his life to acquiring land for the Jewish National Fund, was buried today in his family plot on the Gilbea slopes, opposite the Ein-Harod settlement. He died yesterday at his home in Tel Aviv at the age of 80.
Born in Krementzug, Russia, he was active in his early youth in the Russian revolutionary movement, but after the Krementzug pogrom in 1881 he emigrated to Palestine where he was one of the founders of Rishon L’Zion, the first Jewish settlement. He was deported by the Turks in 1915, but returned to Palestine in 1918 and had since been engaged in redeeming land for the Jewish National Fund.
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