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326immigration would depend on the permission of the Arab majority (section II).Restrictions were also placed on the rights of Jews to buy land from Arabs(section III).Wilhelm II Wilhelm II (January 27,1859 –June 4,1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, rulingthe German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from June 15,1888 to November9,1918.Wolffsohn David Wolffsohn (October 9,1856,Darbėnai (Polish: Dorbiany),Kovno Governorate - September 15,1914) wasa Jewish businessman, prominent Zionist and second president of the WorldZionist Organization.Worker-Pioneerism<strong>The</strong> Hebrew term, used by theauthor, has no precise English translation that I am aware of. <strong>The</strong>Hebrew/Yiddish term “bitzuist” implies a person who, though making hisliving as a rank-and-file worker, such as a farmer or factory worker,advances a larger ideological goal through his livelihood.Yevsk<strong>The</strong> author may be referring toYevsektsiya (alternative spelling: Yevsektsia, which was the Jewish sectionof the Soviet Communist party. Yevsektsiya was established topopularize Marxism and encourage loyalty to the Soviet regimeamong Russian Jews. <strong>The</strong> founding conference of Yevsektsiya took place onOctober 20, 1918. For most of its existence, the Yevsektsya was headedby Semyon Dimanstein.Yedidiya SegalIn the winter preceding theestablishment of the state, the Jewish community in Palestine was rocked bycontroversy over the murder in Haifa of a young guard by the name ofYedidya Segal. <strong>The</strong> murderer was never brought to trial but the affair led to alibel case, debates in the Knesset, and numerous investigative reports byjournalists.Yehoshua Zettler Yehoshua Zettler (July 15, 1917 –May 20, 2009; last name also spelled as Zeitler) was an Israeli who servedas the Jerusalem commander of Jewish paramilitary group Lehi, often alsocalled as the Stern gang. He conceived and carried out the September 17,1948, assassination of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, representing the United

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