General Zionists

The General Zionists were a center of movement within the Zionist movement.

The term was used to refer to members of the World Zionist Congress, (the latter under the leadership of Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky ) were at the beginning of the split between Socialists and revisionists not members of a particular group. 1931 were founded during a congress in Krakow the General Zionists as a party, the joined the " radical Zionists " in Poland under the leadership of Yitzhak Grünbaum. This movement recorded among the Jews in Poland and other European countries large inflow. They first supported the idea of Zionism, as well as to European SME positions such as private property and free market economy. At the beginning of the 1930s resulted in the General Zionists a split in a group that supported the policy of Chaim Weizmann to Britain in the British mandate and the trade union Histadrut, and a second group of policy Weizman stood against.

After Israeli independence in 1948, moving the General Zionists, in response to the general political hegemony of the ruling party Mapai and the socialist Zionists, politically to the right.

The General Zionists were responsible for the first 13 years after the founding of the state in the Knesset, once the second largest party. In 1961 they united with other center parties Miflaga Liberalit Jisra'elit and merged in Gachal - election coalition with the conservative Herut, which eventually became the Likud.

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