Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak (1884-1963)
Né/born Yitzhak Shimshelevich
- Quotation from Yitzhak Ben-Zvi “The vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their origins in the Arab conquerors” — 1929
Future 2nd president of Israel, he sees in the Palestinians descendants of Jews converted to Islam. - Quotation from David et Ben-Zvi Ben Gurion “Tolerance and generosity unparalleled in the history of the Christian peoples of the period” — 1918
In a book in which they totally ignore the contemporary Armenian genocide. - Quotation from Yitzhak Ben-Zvi “We should have demanded that workers be employed without regard to national and religious” — 1914
“Socialist" Zionist, leader of Poalei Zion, who became the second president of Israel in 1952, in a letter to the editorial board of Haachdut. - Quotation from Yitzhak Ben-Zvi “Contradiction should be resolved by relinquishing the socialist principle in favour of the national” — 1912
Future 2nd President of Israel, speaking about the left-wing split of the Poale Zion group, which supported the class struggle.