Who is Gideon Asch from The Haj and what is their importance?

Gideon Asch was the son of Jewish immigrant to Palestine. His parents came from Romania in the 1880s, and he was born in an area of Galilee. He became active in the Jewish nationalist movement while he was in his teens and became one of the Shomer. These were groups of men who knew the Arab customs and language and helped protect the Jewish farming settlements,called kibbutzim. Gideon arrived in Tabah and met with Ibrahim, telling him there would be a Jewish farming settlement nearby and hoped they could all be friends. Gideon was a lieutenant in the British army and a friend of the Wahhabi Sheik, Walid Azziz.