Yitzhak Tabenkin
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| Date of birth | 8 January 1888 |
| Place of birth | Babruysk, Russian Empire |
| Year of aliyah | 1912 |
| Date of death | 6 June 1971 (aged 83) |
| Place of death | Ein Harod, Israel |
| Knessets | 1, 3 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1951 | Mapam |
| 1955–1959 | Ahdut HaAvoda |
Yitzhak Tabenkin (Hebrew: יצחק טבנקין, 8 January 1888 – 6 June 1971) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician. He was one of the founders of the Kibbutz Movement.
Tabenkin was born in Babruysk in the Russian Empire (now Belarus) in 1888. He attended a cheder in Warsaw and later continued with a secular education. He was among the founders of Poale Zion in Poland. He cited Karl Marx and Haim Nahman Bialik as influences.
In 1912 he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine, where he worked as an agricultural laborer in Merhavia and Kfar Uria. During the First World War, he worked on the Kinneret farm. He was a delegate to every Zionist Congress after the war.
He joined the defense organization HaShomer. He was a member of the "Non-Party" workers group and was active in agricultural laborers organizations in the West Bank. In 1921 he joined Joseph Trumpeldor's Gdud HaAvoda and became one of the founders of kibbutz Ein Harod, which later became the center of the Kibbutz Movement, where he was considered a spiritual leader. He went on a mission on behalf of "Hechalutz" to Poland to encourage Aliyah.
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