The Importance of Laboring on the Land in Early Zionist Settlement

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Theodore Herzl and Arthur Ruppen were heavily influenced by models of European colonialism. The cityology is a sort of fun house mirror of the very sort of anti-Semitism that shaped these forms of property law from the earliest days, says Chaim Mekelberg. Early Zionist foresaw as you know being central to the the Israeli Zionist project what would become the Israeli state.

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