AARON AARONSOHN
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He was a very large, heavy set man, and he wanted the Turk to know that he had strong connections in America. The Turks had made the mistake of allying themselves with Germany in WWI, but as thinks were not going very well for the Germans in the war, the Turkish leadership did not want to needlessly offend the United States. Aaronsohn was not hanged.
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Aaron Aaronsohn (Hebrew: אהרון אהרנסון) was a Jewish agronomist, botanist, and Zionist activist, who was born in Romania and lived most of his life in the Land of Israel, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Aaronsohn was the discoverer of emmer (Triticum dicoccoides), believed to be "the mother of wheat."
