Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine

Glossary

Glossary Ahdut ha-Avoda-Workers' party established in Palestine in 1919. Defined itself as Zionist and Socialist. The largest workers' party in the 1920S. United with Hapoel Hatzair to form Mapai. Hakkibutz Hameuchad-Federation of Kibbutzim founded in 1927. Was affiliated with the largest workers' party, Ahdut ha-Avoda. Hapoel Hamizrahi-Founded in 1922. Workers' branch of the Mizrahi, the religious Zionist party. Formed a close alliance with Mapai and enjoyed the benefits and services allocated by the Histadrut. Hapoel Hatzair-Formed in 1905. A workers' party formed in Palestine . Did not consider itself a socialist, class-oriented party. United with Ahdut ha-Avoda in 1930 to form Mapai. Hashomer Hatzair (The Young Guardsman)-Originally a youth movement established in eastern Europe. An important member of the pioneering immigration to Palestine from Third Aliya 1919 and onwards . Left of center of the Jewish Labor Movement in Palestine. Supported class cooperation between Jewish and Arab workers. Itzel (Irgun Zva'i Le'umi-National Military Organization)-An underground Jewish paramilitary organization affiliated with the Revisionist movement. Founded in 1931. Did not accept the authority of the Labor Movement-dominated institutions of the Yishuv. Lehi (Lohamei Herut Yisrael-Fighters for the Freedom of Israel)Underground paramilitary organization that seceded from the Itzel in 1940. Both Itzel and Lehi adopted an aggressive strategy toward both Arabs and the British forces. 218 GLOSSARY Mapai (Mifleget Poalei Eretz Israel-the Party of the Workers of the Land of Israel)-The largest workers' party in the Yishuv. Estblished in 1930 through the uniting of Ahdut ha-Avoda and Hapoel Hatzair. Was the dominant party in all elected institutions of the Yishuv, and in the World Zionist Organization, from the mid-1930S. Attempted to combine national goals with working-class interests. Moshava (pI. Moshavot)-Private enterprise agricultural settlements. Most of them established in the end of the nineteenth century. Based on plantation and citrus agriculture. Tended to employ Arab workers as seasonal hired labor. Palestine Office-Representing agency of the WZO in Palestine, established in 1908 and headed by Arthur Ruppin. PKP-Palestine Communist Party-Known as PKP according to its original name in Yiddish-Palestiner Kumunistishe Partie. Established in 1919. Strongly opposed to Zionist movement, Zionist settlement in Palestine, and to the Histadrut and its Jewish labor policy. During most of the period of British rule, the PKP was illegal. Composed of both Jewish and Arab members. Split into Jewish and Arab sections in 1943. Po'alei Zion Smol-The left wing of Po'alei Zion, the Workers of Zion. Seceded from Po'alei Zion when it united with unaffiliated workers, in 1919, to form Ahdut ha-Avoda. Was on the left fringe of the Zionist Labor Movement and supported Arab-Jewish joint trade unionism. Va'ad Le'umi (National Council)-The executive body of the elected institutions of the Yishuv. ...