| Arbeter-ring in Yisroel – Brith Haavoda Hebrew: ברית עבודה - אַרבעטער-רינג |
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| President | Josef Fraind |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Headquarters | 48 Kalisher Street, Tel-Aviv 65165 |
| Politics of Israel Political parties Elections |
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The Arbeter-ring in Yisroel – Brith Haavoda (Hebrew: ברית עבודה - אַרבעטער-רינג) is the Israeli branch of the International Jewish Labor Bund, launched in 1951.
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Its first secretary was Isachar (Oskar) Artuski (real name: Eichenbaum/Aykhenboym, 1903 or 1908-1971), a former Polish Communist who had joined the Bund in 1935. He was also the founder and first editor of Lebns Fragn (see below) and a correspondent of an American Trotskyist magazine “Labor Action”.[1]
Since 2006 the present secretary has been Josef Fraind, who immigrated to Israel from Warsaw in 1952.[2]
Bella Bryks-Klein has been the Director of Cultural Events and Library since January 2007 to the present.[3]
The Israeli Bund chapter presented a list at the 1959 Knesset election, under the name Socialist Union, but failed to win a seat with only 1,322 votes (0.1%).[1][4]
The Israeli Bundist magazine is לעבנס־פֿראַגן (Lebns Fragn, Life questions), founded in May 1951 by Isachar Artuski, the responsible editor was Ben-Zion ("Bentsl") Tsalevitsh (1883-1967), who came to Palestine in 1922. Since Artuski's death in November 1971 the editor has been Yitskhok Luden.[5]
