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10 Facts About Zvi Galor

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Dr Zvi Galor, born in 1939, is an Israeli expert on cooperatives.

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From 1980 to 2002, Galor served as the pedagogical director of the English and French internships at the International Institute for Labour, Development and Cooperative Studies in Tel Aviv, which in 1994 became part of the International Institute of the Histadrut.

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In 1996 Zvi Galor became the institute's academic director, In this position he initiated dozens of pedagogical overseas missions in situ, organizing training courses run by the institute's instructors directly in the students' country of origin.

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From 1976 to 1978, Zvi Galor participated in the establishment of a moshav in the Jordan Valley.

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Zvi Galor was a member of Moshav Kfar Vitkin's Executive Committee from 1978 to 1980.

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Zvi Galor has developed an innovative research axis aimed at preventing the dismantling of cooperatives.

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Zvi Galor has published dozens of articles he wrote in Hebrew in English and in French, some of which were even translated into Spanish, Arabic, Indonesian and Vietnamese.

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Zvi Galor studied the problems arising from the dismantling of cooperative structures, both in developing and developed countries.

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Zvi Galor focused in particular on the reasons that led to the dismantling of two Israeli cooperatives that had been in existence for a relatively long period: Tnuva and Hamashbir Hamerkazi.

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Zvi Galor found that the following situations lead to the dismantling of a cooperative:.