1. Political and Institutional Consolidation
The Rising Status of the yishuv

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

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

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

5. 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

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