Immortalized by popular Israeli singer, Yehoram Gaon, Elef Nishikot Lach Ahuvati - One Thousand Kisses for You My Beloved - is the poem which Avshalom Fineberg wrote to Sara Aharonson in the early 1900s.



Their tragic romance is intertwined with the struggle of the Jews in pre-State Israel. NILI, the underground organization that the Aharonsons and Fineberg created to oust the rule of the Ottoman Empire and replace it with the protection of the British Empire, is an acronym for the words 'Netzah Yisrael Lo Yishakar - the Might of Israel Will Not Fail'.





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