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Manya Shochat

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “russian jewish politician and the "mother" of the collective settlement in palestine”. Today it says “russian-jewish politician who was a leading figure in the zionist movement”.
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Manya Shochat ( Hebrew : מניה שוחט ; also Mania, Wilbuszewicz/Wilbushewitz; later Shochat; 1880–1961) was a Russian-Jewish politician who was a leading figure in the Zionist movement . She was influential in the establishment of kibbutzim in Palestine in the early 1900s, which laid the groundwork for the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

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russian jewish politician and the "mother" of the collective settlement in palestine

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russian-jewish politician who was a leading figure in the zionist movement

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