Zionism and Free Enterprise The Story of Private Entrepreneurs
in Citrus Plantations in Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s In co-
publication with The Hebrew University Magnes Press - Irit Amit-
Cohen explores the tension between Zionist ideology and
mainstream economic thinking in Palestine in the 1920 and 1930s.
- The book tells the story of North Americans, South Africans,
English and Egyptian Jewish entrepreneurs who invested in citrus
plantations and changed Palestine’s economy. Aims and Scope Irit
Amit-Cohen explores the riddle behind disappearing citrus
orchards and plantations from Israel’s coastal scenery. The book
reveals the biographies of entrepreneurs who came to Palestine
in the 1920s and 1930s. Exposing the uniqueness of the
plantation companies, describing the figures involved in them
and analyzing their contribution to forming Palestine’s
settlement landscape in the British Mandate period, this book
relates the intimate narrative of settlements which were built
as temporary structures, but still