Socialist Zionism - also known as Labor Zionism - emerged in the late 19th century as one of the driving forces of the Jewish national movement. It developed in Eastern Europe between the 1880s and 1900s, fueled by three major tensions: the rise of antisemitism across the continent, the limits of Jewish emancipation in modern states, and the economic precariousness of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe.

Yitzhak Rabin was Israel's former IDF Chief of Staff, the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Established in 1930, the Mapai party resulted from the union of two parties: Ahdut HaAvoda and HaPoel HaTzair. The left union was not complete, as Hashomer Hatzair and Poalei Zion Smol (Left) were left out of the union.

Berl Katznelson was one of the intellectual founders of Socialist Zionism, instrumental in the establishment of the modern state of Israel, and the editor of Davar.

David Ben-Gurion (born David Grun) was an Israeli politician and the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel.

Ha'poel Hatzair is the first Zionist socialist party founded in the Land of Israel in 1905 by Russian Jewish immigrants. The party's goals were Zionism's realization and the creation of a working Hebrew society. The party considered it a duty to embrace productive (industrial and agricultural) labor work in settlements and to work on Hebrew language revival.