Political and Institutional Consolidation The Rising Status of the yishuv

The Beginning of the 1920s The Jewish people Zionist Movement Yishuv Labor

Political Party-Structure Religious Zionism (since 1901) Labor Zionism 1919 The ‘Histadrut” Labor Union 1920 – main stronghold in the yishuv => MAPAI-1930 Revisionist Zionism - 1925 Right Wing opposition General Zionism – 1935

The Yishuv to Leadership 1930s The Jewish People Mapai Zionist movement + supporters Yishuv

The Jewish Agency as the National Authority Enlargement of the Jewish Agency 1929 Growing authority of the National Council Ben-Gurion the Chair of the JA 1935 Mapai in charge of both JA and NC The move of Headquarters to Palestine The Hagana under the authority of the JA JA and NC = Quasi-Government

Discussion Why and how did Mapai get the upper hand? What made it possible to construct the “State in the Making?”