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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.
State Start date End date Duration Senior senator Junior senator California January 3, 1993: January 3, 2017: 24 years, 0 days Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Wisconsin January 3, 1993: January 3, 2011: 18 years, 0 days Herb Kohl (D) Russ Feingold (D) Connecticut January 3, 2011: January 3, 2013: 2 years, 0 days Joe Lieberman (I) Richard ...
In 1922, various non-aligned groups and individuals established the Organization of General Zionists as a non-ideological party within the Zionist Organization (later the World Zionist Organization) at a time when the Zionist movement was becoming polarized between Labour Zionists and Revisionist Zionism.
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
Considered the father of political Zionism, Herzl did not live to see a Jewish state. He died of heart disease in 1904. Did Zionism always envision statehood for Jews in what is now Israel?
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 ...
Hamas gunmen killed 1,400 people and took around 200 hostages, including Americans, when they rampaged through Israeli towns. Israel has since put Gaza under siege. At least 4,385 Palestinians ...
Theodor Herzl addresses the Second Zionist Congress in 1898. During the First Zionist Congress, the following agreement, commonly known as the Basel Program, was reached: Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law. The Congress contemplates the following means to the attainment of this end: