Chronology

 

January 1890

Sarah Aaronsohn is born in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire

 

March 1914

Sarah marries Haim Abraham and moves to Constantinople

 

August 1914

Outbreak of World War I

 

November-December 1915

Sarah returns home to Palestine and witnesses the Armenian genocide during her journey

 

June 1916

Sarah's brother Aaron sets out for England to offer the services of a Jewish spy ring in Palestine to aid the British in their war with the Ottoman Empire

 

January 1917

With no word from Aaron, Avshalom Feinberg, a Jewish spy, attempts a crossing of the Sinai Desert to reach the British lines, but is killed by Bedouin.  Sarah is now in charge of the spy ring. 

 

February 1917

A British spy ship makes contact with Sarah and her spy ring, code-named Nili and, for the next eight months, Sarah and her spies supply crucial intelligence about the Ottoman forces to the British

 

October 1917

Sarah is captured by the Ottomans