Zvi Yehuda was a Zionist

Zionism

Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...

 activist and later a politician.

Biography

Born in Uman

Uman

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 in the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 (today in Ukraine

Ukraine

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), Yehuda organised two Zionist youth groups in Uman, Degel Zion and Tzeiri Zion. In 1906 he made aliyah

Aliyah

Aliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel . It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology. The opposite action, emigration from Israel, is referred to as yerida . The return to the Holy Land has been a Jewish aspiration since the Babylonian exile...

 to Ottoman-controlled Palestine, and was amongst the founders of Kvutzat Kinneret in 1908. In 1912 he helped establish Degania, the first kibbutz

Kibbutz

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. During World War I

World War I

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 he served as a member of the Galilee Workers Commtitee.

In 1920 Yehuda travelled to Europe to help immigrants of the Third Aliyah

Third Aliyah

The third Aliyah refers to the third wave of the Jewish immigration to Israel from Europe who came inspired by Zionist motives between the years 1919 and 1923 . A symbol of the start of the third immigration wave is the arrival of the boat "Roselan" in the Jaffa Port on December 19, 1919...

. The following year he helped found Nahalal

Nahalal

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, the first moshav

Moshav

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 ovdim, and was a director of the Moshav fund and a member of the Moshavim Movement

Moshavim Movement

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's secretariat, as well as the Farmers Federation and Histadrut

Histadrut

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 trade union. He helped establish Hapoel Hatzair

Hapoel Hatzair

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 movement, and was a member of its central committee. He also helped establish Hapoel Hatzair and Tzeiri Zion in the United States

United States

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.

In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1949

Elections for the Constituent Assembly were held in newly independent Israel on 25 January 1949. Voter turnout was 86.9%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset...

 on the Mapai

Mapai

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 list. However, he lost his seat in the 1951 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1951

Elections for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July 1951. Voter turnout was 75.1%.-Results:¹ Rostam Bastuni, Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh left Mapam and set up the Left Faction. Bastuni later returned to Mapam whilst Berman and Sneh joined Maki. Hannah Lamdan and David Livschitz left...

. He died in 1965.

His wife was Nettie Antonow, daughter of Ben-Zion Antonow and Fanny Sharegordsky Antonow, founders of Ramat Gan, Israel.

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