Ahdut HaAvoda
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Ahdut HaAvoda
אַחְדוּת הַעֲבוֹדָה |
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| Leader |
Yitzhak Tabenkin Yigal Allon |
| Founded | March 1919 (Ahdut HaAvoda) 1944 (Ahdut HaAvoda Movement) 1954 (Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion) |
| Dissolved | 23 January 1968 |
| Split from |
Poale Zion (1919) Mapai (1944) Mapam (1954) |
| Merged into |
Mapai (5 Jan 1930) Mapam (1948) Labor Party (1968) |
| Newspaper |
LaMerhav (Hebrew) Folksblatt (Yiddish) |
| Ideology | Labor Zionism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Alliances | Alignment (1965–1968) |
| Most MKs | 10 (1955–1959) |
| Fewest MKs | 4 (1954–1955) |
| Election symbol | |
| תו | |
Ahdut HaAvoda (Hebrew: אַחְדוּת הַעֲבוֹדָה, lit. Labour Unity) was the name used by a series of political parties. Ahdut HaAvoda in its first incarnation was led by David Ben-Gurion. It was first established during the period of British Mandate and later became part of the Israeli political establishment. It was one of the forerunners of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party.
The original Ahdut HaAvoda party was founded in Palestine in March 1919, while under British military administration, after a split in the Poale Zion party, which had established a branch in Ottoman Syria in 1906. Ahdut HaAvoda was led by David Ben-Gurion, who had been a member of the pre-war group. The root of the division was a conflict between membership of the Communist International and participation in the bourgeois Zionist Organisation (ZO). The membership of the more radical anti-ZO faction tended to come from among the newer Yiddish-speaking immigrants. The speaking of Yiddish became another area of disagreement with Ahdut HaAvoda having a Hebrew-only policy.
The following year, 1920, at a conference in June, the Ahdut HaAvoda decided to establish a military organisation, the Haganah, to replace the existing Hashomer militias.
Also in 1920, Ahdut HaAvoda and the non-Marxist Hapoel Hatzair cooperated to set up the "General Organization of Hebrew Workers" - the Histadrut. In November delegates were elected by 4,500 members of the various labor groups and the first congress was held in Haifa, December 1920. Ahdut HaAvoda did not have an overall majority, but with the help of Hapoel Hatzair, they dominated proceedings. Their objective was the building of a separate Jewish workers economy in Greater Israel. Ben-Gurion was living in New York at the time, but returned in 1921 to be elected the first Secretary of the Histradrut. The Haganah was placed under Histadrut jurisdiction.
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