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Theodor Herzl at the Second Zionist Congress in Basel, 1898. In 1897, at considerable personal expense, he founded the Zionist newspaper Die Welt in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and planned the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. He was elected president of the Congress (a position he held until his death in 1904), and in 1898 he began a ...
Newly inaugurated presidents generally deliver an address to Congress in February of the first year of their term, but this speech is not officially considered to be a "State of the Union". [7] What began as a communication between president and Congress has become in effect a communication between the president and the people of the United States.
Since the creation of the State of Israel, there are no elections held for Israeli delegates to the World Zionist Congress. Rather, elections to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, are deemed to fulfill this function, and Zionist parties represented in the Knesset are apportioned a number of Congress delegates proportional to their strength in the Knesset.
Ahad Ha'am (1856–1927), Russian Empire-born, Cultural Zionist; Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), born in the Austrian Empire, founding father of modern political Zionist movement; Arthur Hertzberg (1921–2006), Polish-born Rabbi, lived in the United States, scholar of Zionism; Moses Hess (1812–1875), French-born philosopher, Labor Zionist
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington.
Following the success of Der Judenstaat, published in 1896, [1] and the First Zionist Congress the following year, [2] Theodor Herzl had become the undisputed leader of the Zionist movement. He envisioned a mass migration of Jewish people "on a very large scale" [3] to Palestine and that the colony should be "secured by public law". For the ...
The World Zionist Congress brought together delegates from across the world to raise funds, lobby support and create the institutions that would one day form the modern day Jewish State known as Israel, which was established in 1948. The Congress met every year from 1897 to 1901 (after which it met every two years, except during the years of ...
The speech was expected to provide Biden a chance to address issues such as the economy, democracy, abortion rights, the United States–Mexico border crisis, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the Israel-Hamas War. [2] President Biden delivering the state of the Union address to the U.S. Congress