Another important Labor Zionist and the first…
1906 CE
Gordon believes that only by physical labor and by returning to the land can the Jewish people achieve national salvation in Palestine.
Gordon will become a folk hero to the early Zionists by coming to Palestine in 1905 at a relatively advanced age—forty-seven—and assiduously working
the land.
He and his political party, HaPoel HaTzair (The Young Worker), are a major force behind the movement to collectivize Jewish settlements in Palestine.
The first kibbutz is begun by Gordon and his followers at Deganya in eastern Galilee.
