Ceire Cion

Ceire Cion (Hebrew: צעירי ציון, "Youth of Zion"), sometimes called the Zionist Party or Ethnic Socialist Party, was a centre-left Jewish political party in Latvia during the inter-war period. It was led by jurist Max Lazerson.^[1][2][3] The party combined the ideas of Zionism and democratic socialism. One of the party's goals was to create a Jewish state in Palestine.^[4]

Ceire Cion
President	Max Lazerson
Dissolved	1931
Ideology	Labor Zionism
Political position	Centre-left
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History

The party won a single seat in the 1920 Constitutional Assembly elections.^[5] It retained its seat in the 1922, 1925 and 1928 elections, but missed out on a seat in the 1931 elections by 50 votes.^[6] Later in 1931 it merged with the Latvian Organisation of Zionist Socialists to form the Zionist-Socialist Party.^[4][7]

See also

• Tze'irei Zion
• History of the Jews in Latvia