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 rejected by two prestigious academic publications.

Book in Hebrew

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