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Henrietta Szold (1860–1945), Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America Bernice Tannenbaum (1913–2015), activist with Hadassah Joseph Trumpeldor (1880–1920), born in the Russian Empire, involved in the organisation of the Zion Mule Corps which assisted in Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine
Zionism [a] is an ethnocultural nationalist [b] movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a home for the Jewish people through the colonization of Palestine, [2] an area roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism, [3] and of central importance in Jewish history.
Zionist settlers were usually young and far from their families so a relatively permissive culture was able to develop. Within the Kibbutz movement child rearing was done communally thus freeing women to work (and fight) alongside the men. The Zionist Roza Pomerantz-Meltzer was the first woman elected to the Sejm, the Parliament of Poland. She ...
Considered the father of political Zionism, Herzl did not live to see a Jewish state. He died of heart disease in 1904. ... Zionism to many Jewish people means, essentially, patriotism: a ...
The draft of the objective of the modern Zionist movement submitted to the First Zionist Congress of the Zionist Organization in 1897 read: "Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured by law." One delegate sought to replace "by law" with "by international law", [8] which was opposed by others.
When Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet during his visit to Israel, the U.S. president assured them: "I don't believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist ...
See related articles Zionism, Timeline of Zionism, Anti-Zionism and Ideology ... People of the Jewish Agency for Israel (1 C, 12 P) R. Reconstructionist Zionists (1 C)
In its most basic definition, a Zionist is somebody who believes that the Jewish people have a right to statehood in their ancestral homeland as a place of refuge from centuries of persecution ...