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Dov Hoz (1894-1940) was a leader of the Labor Zionism
Labor Zionism

Labor Zionism can be described as the major stream of the left wing of the Zionism movement. If it was not for many years the major stream in the Zionist movement, it was a significant tendency among Zionists and Zionist organizational structures....
 movement, one of the founders of the Haganah
Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
 organization, and a pioneer of Israeli aviation
Aviation

File:Norwegian military Bell 412SP helicopters.jpgAviation refers to activities involving man-made flying devices , including the people, organizations, and regulatory bodies involved with them....
.

Born in Orsha
Orsha

Orsha is a city in Belarus in Vitebsk voblast on the fork of the Dnieper River and Arshytsa rivers....
, Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 in 1894, Hoz immigrated to Ottoman Palestine
Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
 along with his family in 1906.

Beginning in 1909, he was part of the group that organized guarding activity of the city of Tel-Aviv. The group included Shaul Meiruv-Avigor, Eliyahu Golomb
Eliyahu Golomb

Eliyahu Golomb was the leader of the Jewish defense effort in British Mandate of Palestine and chief architect of the Haganah, the underground military organization for defense of the Yishuv between 1920 and 1948....
 and Moshe Sharett
Moshe Sharett

Moshe Sharett was the second Prime Minister of Israel , serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms....
.

During World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, Hoz volunteered for service in the Turkish
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 army and was sentenced to death for continuing activities to secure the Jewish settlement of Palestine.






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Dov Hoz (1894-1940) was a leader of the Labor Zionism
Labor Zionism

Labor Zionism can be described as the major stream of the left wing of the Zionism movement. If it was not for many years the major stream in the Zionist movement, it was a significant tendency among Zionists and Zionist organizational structures....
 movement, one of the founders of the Haganah
Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
 organization, and a pioneer of Israeli aviation
Aviation

File:Norwegian military Bell 412SP helicopters.jpgAviation refers to activities involving man-made flying devices , including the people, organizations, and regulatory bodies involved with them....
.

Born in Orsha
Orsha

Orsha is a city in Belarus in Vitebsk voblast on the fork of the Dnieper River and Arshytsa rivers....
, Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 in 1894, Hoz immigrated to Ottoman Palestine
Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
 along with his family in 1906.

Beginning in 1909, he was part of the group that organized guarding activity of the city of Tel-Aviv. The group included Shaul Meiruv-Avigor, Eliyahu Golomb
Eliyahu Golomb

Eliyahu Golomb was the leader of the Jewish defense effort in British Mandate of Palestine and chief architect of the Haganah, the underground military organization for defense of the Yishuv between 1920 and 1948....
 and Moshe Sharett
Moshe Sharett

Moshe Sharett was the second Prime Minister of Israel , serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms....
.

During World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, Hoz volunteered for service in the Turkish
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 army and was sentenced to death for continuing activities to secure the Jewish settlement of Palestine. He escaped death by fleeing to the south of Palestine which had just been conquered by the British.

Some highlights of his career:
  • He was one of the organizers of the Jewish Legion
    Jewish Legion

    The Jewish Legion was the name for five battalions of Jewish volunteers established as the British Army's 38th through 42nd Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers....
    .
  • 1920-1930: Member of the central Haganah committee
  • 1931-1940: Member of the national Haganah command center.
  • One of the heads of the labor movement and part of the group that start the socialist Ahdut HaAvoda
    Ahdut HaAvoda

    Ahdut HaAvoda was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party....
     party.
  • 1935: Appointed vice-mayor of Tel-Aviv.
  • Later, head of the state department of the Histadrut
    Histadrut

    The Histadrut or HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael is the Israeli trade union congress.It was founded in December 1920 in Haifa as a Jewish trade union which would also provide services for members such as an employment exchange, sick pay, and consumer benefits....
     (Labor Federation).
  • Founder and CEO of "Aviron", a company which pioneered aviation in Israel, mostly for security purposes, by training pilots, establishing flight lines in Israel and outside. This company served as cover for "Sherut Avir
    Sherut Avir

    Sherut Avir was the air force of the Haganah and the forerunner of the Israeli Air Force....
    " of the Haganah.


Hoz died in a car accident in December 1940 on his way to an Aviron board meeting. In his car were his wife Rivka (sister of Moshe Shertok later to be known as Moshe Sharett
Moshe Sharett

Moshe Sharett was the second Prime Minister of Israel , serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms....
, making Sharett Dov's brother-in-law), daughter Tirza, sister in law Tzvia Sharett and business partner Yitzhak Ben Yaacov.

Kibbutz Dorot
Dorot

Dorot is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located on Route 334 near Sderot, it falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council....
 in the Negev is named after the Hoz family members to denote "Dov, Rivka, Tirza".

Sde Dov Airport
Sde Dov Airport

Sde Dov Airport , also known as Dov Hoz Airport is an airport located in Tel Aviv, Israel which mainly handles domestic flights to Eilat and northern Israel ....
 in North Tel-Aviv is also named after Dov Hoz.