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The Government That Existed Before the State
Most people imagine Israel's statehood began with Ben-Gurion's declaration in 1948. But by then, the Jewish Agency already ran immigration, the Histadrut controlled a quarter of the economy, and the Haganah had a centralized military command. This episode traces how the Yishuv's pre-state institutions—the Histadrut, the Jewish Agency, and the Haganah—created a path dependency that shaped Israel's economy, military doctrine, and legal system for decades after independence. We explore why the state didn't build institutions from scratch but simply relabeled existing ones, and how choices made…
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