ha-Shomer

Israeli organization

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  • role of Ben-Zvi
    • Ben-Zvi, 1953
      In Itzhak Ben-Zvi

      …in 1908 helped found ha-Shomer, a self-defense organization for Jewish agricultural settlements. In 1909 he founded in Jerusalem the first Hebrew high school in Palestine.

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influence on

    • Mapam
      • In Mapam

        …in 1948 by the ha-Shomer ha-Tzaʿir (Young Guard) and the Aḥdut ʿAvoda-Poʿale Tziyyon (Labour Unity-Workers of Zion), which were both Marxist Zionist movements. Mapam maintains a Marxist ideology and is influential in the left-wing section of the kibbutz (collective settlement) movement, from which it draws much of its strength.…

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    • Tel Ḥay
      • Tel Hay: memorial statue of the Lion of Judah
        In Tel Ḥay

        …Jerusalem by members of ha-Shomer, the Jewish workers’ protective organization, under the command of Joseph Trumpeldor, Zionist pioneer and former hero of the tsarist army. On March 1, 1920, the settlement was attacked by a large band of Arabs; six of the defenders, including Trumpeldor, were killed. The resistance…

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