Editorial Statement of Der onfang

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

1906

Our Tasks

Before we come to the determination of our tasks, we would like to pause for a while to consider the situation of the present moment. We are experiencing here in Palestine a relatively quiet time, which began after the stormy period when an immigrant stream flooded us from Russia. The seething volcano has not been extinguished. At any…

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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

1884–1963

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (b. Shimshelevich) was the second president of the State of Israel and a longtime Labor Party leader. Born in Poltava, Ukraine, Ben-Zvi moved to Palestine in 1907, first living in Jaffa. He studied law at Istanbul University, along with David Ben-Gurion, and was expelled for political reasons from Palestine from 1914 until 1918. Ben-Zvi became the president of the new State of Israel in 1952, a position he held until the end of his life. As a historian of Mizrahi Judaism, Ben-Zvi also founded Jerusalem’s Institute for the Study of Oriental Jewish Communities in the Middle East, which was renamed the Ben-Zvi Institute in his honor.

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