And the people of Israel have been deprived of the great moral and spiritual leadership and inspiration that have helped to make it possible for this new nation to overcome what would otherwise have been almost insuperable obstacles. This great man. born in czarist Ukraine in 1884. went through the shameful persecutions and pogroms of the 1905 year of revolution in Russia. and with his family experenced exile in Siberia. As one of the early refugeeescapees to arrive In Israel. Mr. BenZvi soon distinguished himself as a legal scholar as well as an organizer in the labor movement and one of the first leaders of Hashomer. the underground citizens army which spearheaded the long struggle for an independent Jewish state.
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