Yitzhak Tabenkin
Yitzhak Tabenkin | |
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1949–1951 | Mapam |
| 1955–1959 | Ahdut HaAvoda |
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| Born | 8 January 1888 Babruysk, Russian Empire |
| Died | 6 June 1971 (aged 83) Ein Harod, Israel |
Yitzhak Tabenkin (
Biography
Yitzchak Tabenkin was born in
In 1912, he
He joined the defense organization
He disapproved of the idea of Jewish statehood and advocated a "bottom up" approach to Jewish socialism. He believed this should be achieved in the "Whole Land of Israel". He regarded the political borders of the Middle East following the partition of the Ottoman Empire as imposed by European imperialism.[4] He expressed a vision of the entire Jewish people living in communes as part of a "worldwide alliance of communist peoples". He referred to the Great Revolt as an event that perpetuated the Jewish national existence.[5]
He lived at Ein Harod until his death.
Political career
Tabenkin was one of the founders of
In 1944 he led the "Bet" Faction that split from Mapai and created the new "Ahdut HaAvoda" party. In 1948 he was one of the founders of the more pro-Soviet Mapam, and was elected to the first Knesset in 1949. In 1954 he resigned from Mapam along with Ahdut HaAvoda over the issue of relationships with the Soviet Union[dubious ] and remained the leader of Ahdut HaAvoda until the establishment of the Labor Party in 1968. He was reelected to the third Knesset in 1955.
After the Sinai War of 1956, he opposed Israel's withdrawal and compared it to the Munich Agreement. He 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.[6] During the 1960s, he maintained that the 1949 Armistice Agreements would not last. In June 1966, he said "Anywhere war will allow, we shall go to restore the country's integrity".[7]
After the
A collection of Yitzhak Tabenkin's personal papers and correspondence is stored today at the "Tabenkin Memorial" (Yad Tabenkin) in Ramat Ef'al.[9]
Published works
- The Jewish State and the Way to Achieve It (1944) (in Hebrew)
- Kibbutz Society (1954) (in Hebrew)
- There is No Where to Pullback To (1968) (in Hebrew)
- Lessons of the Six Day War (1970) (in Hebrew)
- Issues (Four Volumes of Articles) (1967) (in Hebrew)
References
- ^ a b c "Tabenkin, Yitzhak (1887–1971)". Jewish Agency. Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2008-10-13.
- ^ Gorenberg (2007), p. 15
- ^ a b c "Tabenkin, Yitzhak". The Israeli Labor Movement (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2008-10-13.
- ^ Gorenberg (2007), pp. 15-16
- ^ Ben-Yehuda (1995), pp. 127-128
- ^ Segev (2007), pp. 177-178
- ^ Segev (2007), p. 180
- ^ Gorenberg (2007), pp. 73-74
- JSTOR 23397353.
Bibliography
- Ben-Yehuda, Nachman (1995-12-08). Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking In Israel. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-299-14834-8.
- Gorenberg, Gershom (2007-03-06). The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977. Holt Paperbacks. p. 480. ISBN 978-0-8050-8241-8.
- Segev, Tom (2007-05-29). 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East (1st ed.). Metropolitan Books. p. 688.
External links
- Yitzhak Tabenkin on the Knesset website
- "Yad Tabenkin". Retrieved 2008-10-13.
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