The Ruppin Prize is a Haifa literary prize, named after and in memory of Arthur Ruppin. Margalit Shilo's first book was published by Yad Ben Zvi, 1988, and won the Ruppin Prize that same year. The research deals with the figure and vision of Arthur Ruppin, the settlement map, the land acquisition policy and the planning of new settlement forms: training farms, groups, moshav, cooperatives, industrial villages; the attitude of Zionist institutions towards Jewish urban settlement and the private sector; the attitude of the institutions towards immigration to the Land of Israel and the question: What comes first: the good of the people or the good of the land? And also: in view of the plan to bring the Yemenite community to the land - on the ethnic issue.