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Yishuv
Jewish settlement, Palestine
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role of Jewish community
- In Palestine: The British mandate
…Jewish community in Palestine, the Yishuv, established its own assembly (Vaʿad Leumi), trade union and labour movement (Histadrut), schools, courts, taxation system, medical services, and a number of industrial enterprises. It also formed a military organization called the Haganah. The Jewish Agency came to be controlled by a group called…
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