Forming Zionist perceptions according to labor Zionists

Hebrew labour (Avoda Ivrit) as a pivotal Zionist instrumental concept

Ideological teaching and social structuring in the labor Zionist youth movement

Reading the movement’s official publication BaMaaleh 1926-1935

The dissertation

In 2024 Ofra completed a PHD for Exeter University in the UK

Abstract

How the ideal of “Hebrew Labour” was taught to a generation of Zionist youth – and how it helped normalize ethnic segregation in pre-state Palestine.

Article

This article was submitted in May 2025 to the Journal of Settler Colonial Studies but not yet accepted or rejected.

Book in Hebrew

This dissertation was published in Hebrew as a book by Emda publishing in 2025.