A lokacin kafin kafuwar ƙasa, Yishuv na Yahudawan Sihiyona a Falasdinu ya ƙirƙiri manyan dabaru guda huɗu:

During the pre-state period the Zionist Yishuv in Palestine developed four key strategies:

• Yaɗuwar amfani da kalmar Falasdinu tare da Eretz Isra'ila a cikin Sahyoniyanci (daga ƙarshen karni na 19 zuwa 1948).

• The widespread use of the term Palestine in tandem with Eretz Israel in Zionism (late 19th century until 1948).

• Ƙwace sunayen Larabawa, haɗa sunayen matsugunan Yahudawa da kuma mayar da mazauna ƴan asalin ƙasa.

• Appropriation of Arab names, hybridisation of names of Jewish settlements and indigenisation of the settlers.

• Amfani da labaran tatsuniya na Littafi Mai Tsarki don cimma manufofin siyasa, da kuma "binciken kayan tarihi na mayar da al'amura" (restorationist biblical archaeology): mayar da sunayen wurare na Larabci na Falasdinu zuwa sunayen Ibrananci da na Littafi Mai Tsarki.

• Instrumentalisation of the myth-narratives of the Bible and ‘restorationist’ biblical archaeology: Hebrewisation and biblicisation of Palestinian Arabic toponyms.

• Amfani da jerin sunayen wurare na Palestine Exploration Fund da ayyukan masana ilimin kayan tarihi na Littafi Mai Tsarki na Yammacin duniya.

• Utilisation of the toponymic lists of the Palestine Exploration Fund and the works of Western biblical archaeologists.