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Berl Katznelson
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “labor-zionist thinker”. Today it says “one of the intellectual founders of labor zionism and was instrumental to the establishment of the modern state”.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “labor-zionist thinker”. Today it says “one of the intellectual founders of labor zionism and was instrumental to the establishment of the modern state”.
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Berl Katznelson ( Hebrew : ברל כצנלסון ; 25 January 1887 – 12 August 1944) was one of the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism and was instrumental to the establishment of the modern state of Israel . He was also the editor of Davar , the first daily newspaper of the Histadrut .
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labor-zionist thinker
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one of the intellectual founders of labor zionism and was instrumental to the establishment of the modern state
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