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- ↑ Yael Yishai (1991). Land of Paradoxes: Interest Politics in Israel. SUNY Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0791407257.
- ↑ "Bustenai". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ↑ Joseph B. Glass (2002). From New Zion to Old Zion: American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917–1939. Wayne State University Press. p. 252. ISBN 978-0814328422.
- ↑ Haim Ariav: Public Activities Knesset
