16 Facts About Shlomo Kaplansky

Shlomo Kaplansky was a Labour Zionist politician, who served as the secretary of the World Union of Poalei Zion.

Shlomo Kaplansky was one of the founders of Poale Zion, a Marxist-Jewish group.

Shlomo Kaplansky was a Poale Zion delegate to the 10th Zionist Congress at which he raised the question of relations with the Arabs and advocated explaining to them the benefits that the Zionist enterprise could bring them.

Shlomo Kaplansky was profoundly shaken by the First World War which led to his opposition to notions of armed conflict in Palestine and he hoped for the realization of Zionism by peaceful means.

Shlomo Kaplansky became head of the World Union of Poale Zion in Vienna and in the summer of 1920 he and David Ben-Gurion were sent to set up a Poale Zion office in London.

Shlomo Kaplansky collaborated with the Independent Labour Party in setting up the Vienna International.

Shlomo Kaplansky called for cooperation with the Arabs without British supervision and for the establishment of settlements all over the country with a vision of a bi-national state.

Shlomo Kaplansky opposed negotiations with Arabs since their leadership was from the "effendi" ruling class and called for the development of ties with an Arab working class.

Shlomo Kaplansky wanted the separation of the two people, Arab and Jew, under British supervision with Jewish settlements in concentrations as a prelude to a Jewish State.

In 1925, Shlomo Kaplansky was director of the Zionist Organisation Settlement Department in Jerusalem.

The resignation call was rejected by the Histadrut but Shlomo Kaplansky did resign later in the year, following the Zionist Congress in Basel, September 1927.

Shlomo Kaplansky was appointed chairman of the Histadrut economic committee.

In 1929, Shlomo Kaplansky returned to the Zionist Executive and was a member of the delegation from Palestine to the Jewish Labour Congress held in Berlin, 27 September 1929.

Shlomo Kaplansky was appointed as the President and Director of Technion in 1931, a position he held until 1950.

Shlomo Kaplansky was preceded by Joseph Breuer, and succeeded by Yaakov Dori.

In May 1942 Shlomo Kaplansky presided over a special conference which led to the formation of the "V-League to help the Soviet Union" which raised funds for the Soviet war effort.