The remains of Avshalom Feinberg, a member of “Nili,” a Jewish nationalist underground organization which opposed the Turks in Palestine during World War I, were reinterred with military honors here today at ceremonies attended by Kaddish Luz, Speaker of the Knesset, and Chief Chaplain Shlomo Goren of Israel’s armed forces. The remains were found in a grave near El Arish in the Sinai.
“Nili” was a controversial group in its time and although it espoused the cause of Jewish nationalism and aided the British against the Ottoman Turkish rulers of Palestine, it was opposed by elements of the Jewish population and its role is still a subject of debate in Israel.
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