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During the British mandate in Palestine, the General Labour Federation, which shall be referred to henceforth in its shortened Hebrew name Histadrut, was a voluntary body, which took upon itself tasks which are usually handled by a government, and concentrated under its auspices tasks and responsibilities in various fields: education, security, health, housing and employment. This was done despite the fact that the Histadrut was a body with a clear ideological commitment to the Labour Movement with its various parties. A significant proportion of the Jewish population in Palestine were not members in the Histadrut.
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© 1999 Hanna Yablonka
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Yablonka, H. (1999). The Histadrut in the Shadow of the State. In: Survivors of the Holocaust. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14152-4_18
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