The Zionist labor movement and the Hebrew University.
From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought
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Date: 3/22/1996
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Author: Shapira, Anita
Leaders of the Zionist Labor Movement supported the establishment and expansion of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a means of promoting scientific and technological research in the early years of Israel. PM David Ben-Gurion and Berl Katznelson recognized the need for education for national productivity despite their movement's emphasis on physical labor. However, Ben-Gurion also expected the school to engage in defense research and to solve state problems such as mass immigration.
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