Rooting the rootless: the absorption of Holocaust survivors in Israeli rural settlements

From its outset, the Zionist movement placed agriculture at the pinnacle of its priorities, and made it an inseparable part of the fulfillment of the ideal of establishing Jewish national control of the land. Zionism viewed agriculture as the best way of restoring the Jewish people to economic and social health, and as the preferred method for the creation of a permanent, stable and broad-based Jewish presence in Palestine