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Aaron Aaronsohn
Aaron Aaronsohn (1876–May 15, 1919) was a renowned Romanian-born Jewish botanist, traveler, entrepreneur, and Zionist politician, remembered primarily as the discoverer of two-seeded wild emmer triticum dicoccoides (which he believed to be "the mother of the wheat") and as the founder and head of Nili, a Jewish ring of spies working for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during World War I. Owing to information supplied by Nili to the British Army, General Edmund Allenby was able to mount a surprise attack on Beersheba, unexpectedly bypassing strong Ottoman defenses in Gaza.
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