​A portrait of Sarah Aaronsohn taken in 1915 when she was 25 years old.

Sarah was born in Zichron Ya’akov in the north of Israel during the time of the Turkish rule of Israel (then Palestine). 

In 1916, a year after this photograph was taken, Sarah joined her brother Aaron’s spy ring, NILI, which he had established to provide military information to the British army in order to drive the Turkish rulers out of Israel. When Aaron left Israel for Egypt and Europe, Sarah headed NILI together with Avshalom Feinberg. In 1917, a pigeon carrying information to the British army was caught by the Turkish police. Sarah was caught and tortured. Just before being sent to a prison in Nazareth, she took a gun that she had hidden in her house and put an end to her life.