Theodor Herzl
Participants at the first World Jewish-Zionist Youth Congress draft a charter and elect a council to connect young Jewish leaders worldwide.
A record number of groups are running, including some with “a professional-style campaign with influencers, campaign managers, coordinators and organizers,” said Herbert Block, of the American Zionist Movement.
Israeli president calls the refusal to negotiate on a judicial reform agreement a “blunder of historic proportions.”
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“He’s our George Washington and our Thomas Jefferson all wrapped in one,” says historian and author Gil Troy of Zionism’s founding father.
The Israeli president also called on the international community to make it “crystal clear” that calls to eradicate a sovereign member state of the United Nations were unacceptable.
Republika Srpska President Željka Cvijanović agrees to the request to exhume the remains of the grandfather and grandmother of the father of modern political Zionism and have them sent to Israel.
From now and continuing through summer 2022, under #Herzl125, AZM will celebrate landmark events of Herzl and Zionism, culminating with marking the 125th anniversary of the first Zionist Congress.
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern-day Zionism, convened the first Zionist Congress in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. In 2020, a total of 15 slates are running in the World Congress elections.
“The World Zionist Congress is the ‘parliament of the people.’ This is the best way for American Jews to vote for their voice in Israel,” said Herbert Block of the American Zionist Movement.
The historical artifact was discovered under a closet in a Jewish National Fund warehouse, and is to be put on permanent display at JNF headquarters as a link to the father of Zionism.
