Political and Institutional Consolidation

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Political and Institutional Consolidation

• The Rising Status of the yishuv

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The Beginning of the 1920s
The Jewish people
Zionist Movement
Yishuv
Labor
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Political Party-Structure

• Religious Zionism (since 1901)
• Labor Zionism 1919
• The Histadrut Labor Union 1920
• main stronghold in the yishuv
• gt MAPAI-1930
• Revisionist Zionism - 1925 Right Wing opposition
• General Zionism 1935

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The Yishuv to Leadership 1930s
The Jewish People
Mapai
Zionist movement supporters
Yishuv
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The Jewish Agency as the National Authority

• Enlargement of the Jewish Agency 1929
• Growing authority of the National Council
• Ben-Gurion the Chair of the JA 1935
• Mapai in charge of both JA and NC
• The move of Headquarters to Palestine
• The Hagana under the authority of the JA
• JA and NC Quasi-Government

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Discussion

• Why and how did Mapai get the upper hand?
• What made it possible to construct the
• State in the Making?