A movement uniting Zionism, the project of a Jewish national home in Palestine, with socialist and labour politics, organised from the early twentieth century through parties and collective settlement. It shaped the institutions of the pre-state Jewish community in Palestine and dominated Israeli politics for decades after the state's founding in 1948.
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Founded Year Founding ContextEmerged from the Eastern and Central European Jewish labor movements around the Second Aliyah (from 1904), crystallizing institutionally in Palestine with the founding of Zionist labor parties in 1905. 1 Connections
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Source Labor Zionism (Wikipedia)
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Golda Meir emigrated to Palestine in 1921 and became a leading figure in the Labour Zionist movement before entering national government.
Source Golda Meir (Britannica)
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1. Labor Zionism (Wikipedia)
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A majority of the immigrants at the time were influenced by socialist ideals, because of the Marxist ideologies spreading throughout Russia.
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Labor Zionism is the left-wing, socialist variant of Zionism.
Has Member: David Ben-Gurion, Ideology section
leading figures in the movement included David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, and Berl Katznelson.
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