If the Jewish nation seeks any cultural, moral or national mission, this can be done only through the return to Eretz Israel. This was stated by President Ephraim Katzir speaking at the closing session of the jubilee convention of the Labor Zionist Movement at Beth Berl. The President said that Israel is becoming more and more the national cultural center of the Jewish nation, “and I am convinced that ultimately the Jewish true national creativity would emerge from Israel. Jewish creativity would be possible only when the Jewish nation will be in its homeland.”
Focussing on changes in human life due to the development of technology and science in the era of automation, Katzir said that the socio-economic changes “in the pluralistic society we live in require a reevaluation of the values of the Labor Zionist movement, and maybe of the values in general, with which the world used to live until now.” Katzir repeated his theory that in order to prevent a scientific and technological golem from dominating its creator “we must return to raising the socialistic, human and practical values of the human race.”
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