May 2, 1860 Birth of Benyamin Zeev Herzl, founder of political Zionism and the visionary of the State of Israel. June 15, 1870 Karl (Charles) Netter settles in a cave south of Jaffa and lays the cornerstone of the Mikveh Israel school, the first Jewish settlement in Israel of the modern era. June 5, 1881 […]
Based on Zionism- The First 120 Years, 1882-2002, by Mordecai Naor, The Zionist Library, Jerusalem. See The Jewish Agency. 1800 –There are some 3,750,000 Jews in the world – 2,750,000 in Europe, 300,000 in Asia, some 250,000 in North Africa and tens of thousands in America. The number of Jews in Eretz Israel stands at […]
During the century and a half before the State of Israel was established, the crucial ingredients necessary for creating the State came into being. Those ingredients were expansion of the Jewish population to a critical mass, the collapse of the imperial order in the Middle East, economic and cultural modernization, the development of Zionism, and […]
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