1886 Petach Tikwa, first Arab attack in (modern) Palestine

March - This Day in Jewish History - OU.ORG

March 1:  First organized Arab attack on a Jewish settlement in Eretz Yisrael, 1886, against Petach Tikva.
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Events: The Israel Forever Found Nov 3, 2019

In 1886, they suffered the first terror attack against Jews in pre-State Israel.
https://israelforever.org/events/petach_tikva_establishedpetach_tikva_established

Frumkin Newsletter 2002

The first attack of Arabs on a Jewish settlement was in Petach Tikva in the year 1886; it was the attack in which Rabbi Arieh Leib Frumkin was very badly it was the attack in which Rabbi Arieh Leib Frumkin was very badly injured when he went out to save what he could while being fired upon by the attackers. In his diary Rabbi Frumkin describes how hundreds of Arabs from Yehudia invaded the settlement and beat up, broke and destroyed everything they could.

The contents of his diary were widely published in "The Mother of Settlements", the book commemorating the 50th year of Petach Tikva, from which we will quote here. "On Kaf-Vav Adar about two hundred Arabs from Yehudia came to destroy the village. The male residents of the settlement went on the same day to Jaffa and stayed there, but we will say until when. I therefore brought the women and children into our closed house, which was like a tower (fortress). I went out towards the Arabs and commanded that the gate be closed. Then four of them hit me and injured me with their sticks, which had iron on the ends, until no breath remained in me … I spent ten weeks turning over on my bed, all my body covered with black blood clotted like tar". We also described these events in the book "Achuza B'Petach Tikva" published by the Frumkin Foundation.

Hanna Leah (Frumkin), Rabbi Arieh Leib's third daughter, who saw these events from her window on the second floor of the house, wrote a more detailed description of the happenings in her Memoirs. Amongst other things she wrote, "Several hundred Arabs suddenly attacked with cruel tools in their hands, and took over the complete settlement to destroy it, to kill and to ravage. They began to break windows and doors; they hit and hurt everyone they came into contact with. The women and children began to shout and to run away to my father's courtyard, which immediately became full of women and children. When everyone entered the courtyard, and the door closed behind them, I saw that my father was standing outside, in front of the house, and around him loads of murderers who were hitting him with sticks and every fatal instrument in their hands. My mother and the children began to cry, to shout and to beg my father to enter the courtyard when they would open the gate for him. But he answered them that they should not open the gate and must not allow the mass of people to hurt and invade the place. It was awful to see our father being hit so cruelly in front of our eyes. He was covered in blood and nearly fell to the ground with no strength". Hanna Leah Segal's Memoirs, by the name of "At the Beginning of Petach Tikva", were also published by the Frumkin Foundation.

The event was made known outside of Palestine and astonished the Jewish people of the Diaspora. Many decided that it was dangerous to make Aliya to the Holy Land and to live there, and preferred to remain in the Diaspora...
http://www.frumkin.org.il/newsl02.htm

Schechter, Natan, “Pogrom Petah Tikva 1886,” Keshet He-Hadashah 6 (2003): 137–52 Google Scholar.
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Related. Years later (h/t EoZ):

"New Judea: Jewish Life in Modern Palestine and Egypt," Benjamin Lee Gordon, J. H. Greenstone, 1919 (257 pp.), pp.173-174

ln the course of a conversation, the old agriculturist related many episodes connected with the early history of the colony, one of which impressed itself on my memory. "It was a short while after we came to occupy this land," he said, "before a permanent buildings was completed, and we were all squeezed together in one old Arab mud hovel called "hushot." The place was then wild, and we were busy cleaning away stones, grading the land, making roads, defining the boundaries of our colony and ploughing the hard soil."

"l was watching a field of wheat whose green crops had just made its appearance. One day while patrolling the wheat field, I noticed the Arab Sheikh, of the neighboring village, El Yehud, had turned his horses into our wheat. I chased the horses away and went over to the intruder and warned him not to do it again, as we would hold him personally responsible for all damages. The Sheikh glanced at me scornfully and turned away. A few weeks passed, the wheat field was already proudly waving in the air. l saw from a distance one early morning the Sheikh wrapped in a black "Abba" and a large "Kephiyah" on his head coming toward the colony. l gave a signal to my comrades. In a few minutes they were up and we assembled behind a cactus hedge to decide what steps to take with the treacherous intruder. After some discussion it was decided that we must once for all show the marauding neighbors that we do not fear them and that we are ready to repell and punish all attacks made on this colony. While reaching this decision we noticed the same Sheikh leaving the highway and turning his horse into the wheat. A few of us immediately jumped on our horses and chased after the intruder. He began to run and we followed him until we brought him to a stop. We brought him and his horse back to the village, where he was given a good thrashing, and we sent him off to his home warning him that if this happened again his punishment would be much more severe. He stared at us with an expression of vengeance and then spirited away among the hills. About a month passed and nothing was heard of the Sheikh. One morning we learned from one of our Arab laborers that we were to be attacked on a certain night of that week by the tribesmen of the Sheikh. Not knowing how many were coming, we despatched one of our men to the neighboring colonies for assistance. We did not notify the authorities in Jaffa, thinking it would be more effective and would make a better impression on the Arabs if we convinced them once for all that we did not fear them and that we could use firearms better than they. Pretending that it was a holy day, we dismissed all the Arab laborers for a few days so as to be sure that our enemies would not be informed of our plans, for we discovered that they were spying on us. On the afternoon preceding the night of the expected attack, a score of men and women, comrades, from Rishon L'Zion, Ekron and Katra, mounted on fine horses and armed with new guns at their backs, revolvers at their girdles and belts with cartridges around their waists, rushed on our village like a company of trained cavalry ready to close in on the enemy. They dismounted from the horses and sat down to consult with us about our plan of warfare.

"Towards evening each man was assigned to a strategic position. We knew that they were coming down the main road and that they were to use our field of wheat as the fighting ground. Some of us concealed ourselves near the entrance of the village, behind piles of stones, other in ditches and behind hills; while still others were encamped behind the village houses that were in process of erection, and on the roof of the hut we were occupying.

"The expected hour came. The vanguards, who were patrolling about the fields, having heard from a distance the trotting of horses and wild voices of people, signalled to us, They are coming! Be ready for action! As soon as the enemy entered the grounds of the village two shots were heard. We knew it was the signal for action. A volley of fire from our comrades of the lower side of the colony broke out. The marauders were quickly encircled by our men and they surrendered before we had a chance to fire a shot at them. They were completely taken by surprise. We made prisoners of about twenty Arab ringleaders, including the Sheikh, bound their hands and feet and took them the next day to Jaffa, where we gave them over to the authorities. The others did not need much warning. They were glad to be allowed to get away.

"Since that incident," continued my new friend, "we gained the respect of our neighbors, and we have no organized attacks, except now and then individual robberies that may happen anywhere.
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