history of bashan family

The Bashan family is deeply rooted in the founding of modern-day Israel. Their ancestors might be considered 19th Century equivalents of the 17th Century "Mayflower" pioneers of America

Photo gallery

Click on photo to enlarge

The tombstone of Uzi
Bashan at the old cemetery
of Zikhron Ya’aqov.
The tombstone of Mordechai
Bonshtein, the sole pioneer
of Tantura at the old cemetery
of Zikhron Ya’aqov.

The tombstone of Mordechai
Bonshtein, the sole pioneer
of Tantura at the old cemetery
of Zikhron Ya’aqov.
The tombstone of
Avner Bashan at the
old cemetery of
Zikhron Ya’aqov

The tombstone of Haya
Rachel Bonshtein, wife of
Mordechai Bonshtein, the
only pioneer Jewish family
of Tantura at the old cemetery
of Zikhron Ya’aqov.

The tombstone of Haya
Rachel Bonshtein, wife of
Mordechai Bonshtein, the
only pioneer Jewish family
of Tantura at the old cemetery
of Zikhron Ya’aqov.
The tombstone of Asher
Bonshtein, the father of Avner
Bashan at the old cemetery of
Zikhron Ya’aqov.
The tombstone of
Rachel Bonshtein, the
mother of Avner Bashan
at the old cemetery of
Zikhron Ya’aqov.

In the cemetery of Zikhron
Ya’akov, the original tombstone
of Yzhak Bonshtein
(Krasnostein), the brother of
Mordechai Bonshtein, the
pioneers of Zikhron Ya’akov
who immigrated to Israel in 1893.

The restored tombstone of Yzhak
Bonshtein (Krasnostein).

Metla Bonshtein (Krasnostein),
the wife of Yzhak Bonshtein
(Krasnostein).

The tombstone of Uzi Bashan at the old cemetery of Zikhron Ya’aqov.	The tombstone of Mordechai Bonshtein, the sole pioneer of Tantura at the old cemetery of Zikhron Ya’aqov.	The tombstone of Mordechai Bonshtein, the sole pioneer of Tantura at the old cemetery of Zikhron Ya’aqov.	The tombstone of Avner Bashan at the old cemetery of Zikhron Ya’aqov
The tombstone of Haya Rachel Bonshtein, wife of Mordechai Bonshtein, the only pioneer Jewish family of Tantura at the old cemetery of Zikhron Ya’aqov.	The tombstone of Haya Rachel Bonshtein, wife of Mordechai Bonshtein, the only pioneer Jewish family of Tantura at the old cemetery of Zikhron Ya’aqov.	The tombstone of Asher Bonshtein, the father of Avner Bashan at the old cemetery of Zikhron Ya’aqov.	The tombstone of Rachel Bonshtein, the mother of Avner Bashan at the old cemetery of Zikhron Ya’aqov.