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  2. List of Zionists - Wikipedia

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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

  3. World Zionist Congress - Wikipedia

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    The Second Zionist Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland (1898). Participant card for the first Zionist congress in Basel, Jewish Museum of Switzerland. [1]The Zionist Congress was established in 1897 by Theodor Herzl as the supreme organ of the Zionist Organization (ZO) and its legislative authority.

  4. Theodor Herzl - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. History of Zionism - Wikipedia

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    In 1938–39 the Zionist movement had 1,040,540 members in 61 countries. Total world Jewish population at this time was about 16 million. [133] Zionism was banned in Turkey and the USSR, which had well over 3 million Jews. The following figures relate to the last pre-war Zionist congress in Geneva, 1939.

  6. Zionism - Wikipedia

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    The idea of returning to Palestine was rejected by the conferences of rabbis held in that epoch. Individual efforts supported the emigration of groups of Jews to Palestine, pre-Zionist Aliyah, even before the First Zionist Congress in 1897, the year considered as the start of practical Zionism. [114]

  7. First Zionist Congress - Wikipedia

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    The delegates at the First Zionist Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland (1897). Mountain Jewish delegates with Herzl at the First Zionist Congress. The First Zionist Congress (Hebrew: הקונגרס הציוני הראשון) was the inaugural congress of the Zionist Organization (ZO) held in the Stadtcasino Basel in the city of Basel on August 29–31, 1897.

  8. 38th World Zionist Congress - Wikipedia

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    The 38th World Zionist Congress (Hebrew: הקונגרס הציוני העולמי ה-38) convened in Jerusalem, on October 20–22, 2020, with the participation of over 700 delegates and thousands of people from 35 countries to elect leadership positions and determine policy for the World Zionist Organization (WZO).

  9. Congressional Jewish Caucus - Wikipedia

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    There were 36 Jewish members of the 116th United States Congress, which sat from 2019 to 2021, an increase from 30 during the 115th United States Congress.In the 117th United States Congress, there were 26 Jewish lawmakers in the U.S House of Representatives, all but two of them members of the Democratic Party.