It must have been the 'occupation': First Jewish victim of Arab terror was murdered in 1873

The Ministry of Defense reports that the first Jewish victim of Arab terrorism in Israel was Talmudic scholar Aharon Herhsler HY"D (May God Avenge his blood), who was murdered by Arab terrorists in Jerusalem in January or February 1873.

According to an account of his life provided by the official
governmental site for terror victims, Hershler was a haredi yeshiva
student who studied