562:. Retrieved 17 February 2012. For the next year or more everything went well. The press flourished and Bak found himself employing some thirty workers. Then, in 1834, disaster struck. The Druze of the Galilee revolted against Ibrahim Pasha. Joined by Arabs who resented the Jews' collaboration with the Egyptians, they fell upon the Jewish community of Safed just as the Jews in Jerusalem were being attacked. For days the looting and killing continued until Ibrahim Pasha finally suppressed the rebellion. Bak himself sustained an injury to his left foot that caused him to limp for the rest of his life. Even more painful was the damage done by the rioters to his press
197:, in which Ibrahim Pasha was removed, led to the end of the Jewish settlement in Jermak. Remnants of the buildings and plantations can still be found there today, and it is known as Khirbet Bak (Bak's Ruin). The earthquake also destroyed what was left of Bak's printing house in Safed.
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Agricultural Settlement of Immigrants in the Upper Galilee, Rabbi Yisrael Bak,
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and had an enduring limp all his life. His precious printing press was badly damaged. He is said to have also practiced medicine, although he did not study it in an orderly manner, so that when the
Egyptian governor of the country,
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Morgenstern, "'בית הדפוס של ישראל בק בצפת – גילויים חדשים', על ספרים ואנשים 9 (תשנ"ה), 6–7" (Yisrael Bak's Printing House in Safed - new revelations, About Books and People 9 (1994), 6–7)
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According to one family tradition, the surname Bak is the initials "Baal Koreh" בעל קורא (Reader), a position that the father of the family, Rabbi
Avraham Bak, held in the synagogue of Rabbi
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with the management of the farm in Jermak. For several years the farm was financially successful, and according to the testimony of missionaries from 1839, about 15 people lived in it.
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Literature in Recent Generations (Bd, S. 305–306))
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As the sole printer in
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Me'ir
Benayahu, "בית דפוסו של ר ישראל ב"ק בצפת וראשית הדפוס בירושלים" (Rabbi Yisrael Bak's Printing House in Safed, and the Beginning of Printing in Jerusalem)
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Saev Aner, "סיפורי משפחות, תל אביב: משרד הביטחון - ההוצאה לאור, 1990, עמ' 65–72" (Family
Stories, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 1990, S. 65–72.)
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With the blessing of the governor, in 1834 Bak established a settlement and farm on Mount Jermak (today known by its ancient Hebrew name of
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