1. Yitzhak Tabenkin was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
21 Facts About Yitzhak Tabenkin
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Yitzhak Tabenkin was one of the founders of the kibbutz Movement.
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Yitzchak Tabenkin was born in Babruysk in the Russian Empire in 1888.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin attended a cheder in Warsaw and later continued with a secular education.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin's father abandoned Orthodox Judaism as a young man, turning to radical politics.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin was among the founders of Poale Zion in Poland.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin cited Karl Marx and Haim Nahman Bialik as influences.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin was influenced by Peter Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin was a delegate to every Zionist Congress after the war.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin was a member of the "Non-Party" workers group and was active in agricultural laborers organizations in what would later be called the West Bank.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin went on a mission on behalf of "Hechalutz" to Poland to encourage emigration to Palestine.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin disapproved of the idea of Jewish statehood and advocated a "bottom up" approach to Jewish socialism.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin believed this should be achieved in the "Whole Land of Israel".
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Yitzhak Tabenkin regarded the political borders of the Middle East following the partition of the Ottoman Empire as imposed by European imperialism.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin expressed a vision of the entire Jewish people living in communes as part of a "worldwide alliance of communist peoples".
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Yitzhak Tabenkin referred to the Great Revolt as an event that perpetuated the Jewish national existence.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin opposed the Peel Commission's recommendations and any of Ben-Gurion's attempts to reach a compromise with the Revisionist Zionists.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin was reelected to the third Knesset in 1955.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin said Israel's right to the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip was derived from the Ten Commandments and the blood of the soldiers killed in the war.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin considered the addition of over a million Arabs to Israel's population a problem that could be solved by a massive aliyah.
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Yitzhak Tabenkin believed Israel's victory would awaken the Jewish Diaspora and joined the "Movement for Greater Israel".