A square in Paris and a high school in Créteil have one thing in common with a street in Haifa and a kibbutz in the Galilee: They are all named after Léon Blum . This is not surprising: Blum was not just the first Socialist (and first Jewish) prime minister in the history of France , and was sent to Buchenwald by the Nazis, but as an ardent Zionist, he played an influential postwar role in the early history of Israel. What is rather surprising, though, has been the recent and repeated invocations of Blum ’s name in France ....