NADAB

NADAB (Heb. נָדָב), son of Jeroboam whom he succeeded on the throne of Israel (907–906 B.C.E.). Nadab is said to have ruled for two years (I kings 14:20; 15:25). Since it is also related that he came to the throne in the second year of Asa's reign in Judah and that he was assassinated and succeeded by baasha in the third year of Asa's reign (15:28), the actual period of his rule must have been less than two years. During his short reign he fought against the Philistines and laid siege to gibbethon . Baasha, who presumably was one of his officers, revolted against him. The usurper assassinated all the descendants of Jeroboam as predicted by Ahijah the Shilonite (15:29). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: J.A. Montgomery, The Book of Kings (ICC, 1951), 279; Bright, Hist, 218–219. (Josef Segal) NADAV, ẒEVI NADAV, ẒEVI (1891–1959), Second Aliyah and Ha-Shomer activist, editor, and author. Born in Ein Zeitim near Safed, he was brought up in Bobruisk, Belorussia, and returned to Ereẓ Israel in 1906. Nadav was one of the founders and outstanding members of ha-shomer ("Watchmen's Organization") and among the first settlers at Umm Jūnī (deganyah ) and Merḥavyah . In 1917, when the Nili intelligence network was uncovered, he was sentenced to forced labor in Turkey, but escaped to Russia and returned to Palestine in 1919. He was a member of gedud ha-avodah ("The Labor Legion") and was active in the organization of Jewish defense in Jerusalem in 1920, in Jaffa in 1921, and in Haifa in 1929. He studied engineering and was the editor of the journal Tekhnikah u-Madda ("Mechanics and Science"). His memoirs, which appeared in Koveẓ ha-Shomer ("Ha-Shomer Anthology," 1937), and his books, Mi-Ymei Shemirah ve-Haganah ("The Days of Vigilance and Defense," 1954), and Kakh Hitḥalnu ("Thus We Began," 1958), are a source for the history of the period. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Slutzky (ed.), Sefer Bobruisk (1967), 572–3; Tidhar, 10 (1959), 3547–49; E. Livneh (ed.), Nili (Heb., 1961), index. (Yehuda Slutsky)