The future leadership cadre of the state…
1906 CE
The most important leader of this group and the first prime minister of Israel is David Ben-Gurion.
Ben-Gurion, who arrives in Palestine in 1906, believes that economic power is a prerequisite of political power.
He foresees that the fate of Zionist settlement in Palestine depends on the creation of a strong Jewish economy.
This aim, he believes, can only be accomplished through the creation of a Hebrew-speaking working class and a highly centralized Jewish economic structure.
Beginning in the 1920s, he will set out to create the immense institutional framework for a Jewish workers' state in Palestine.
