First Zionist Congress

Zionism succeeded beyond its founders’ dreams. So why are Jews divided over it? - analysis

From Jewish liberation movement to contested ideology, Zionism’s meaning has changed for Jews around the world

Campus protests over Israel have brought renewed attention to Zionism, with the movement increasingly debated through the language of colonialism and national  self-determination.Premium
Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Congress, August 25, 1897

On this day in history: Theodor Herzl convenes First Zionist Congress in Basel

The founder of political Zionism, Theodore Herzl, is buried on the mountain named after him in 1949.

Is Israel the Jewish state that Theodor Herzl dreamed of? – opinion

  Dr. Haim Ben Yaakov

Extraordinary Zionist Congress -75 Years to the State of Israel - Opinion


Dreaming Jewishly again: The 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress

In introducing Herzl to the next generation, I learned some defining lessons from the 1897 Zionist Congress. These insights should shape the debate we need today.

 BRAVO TO World Zionist Organization Chairman Yaakov Hagoel and his staff for jumpstarting this dreaming-and-doing process, says the writer.

Grapevine January 30, 2022: A year of milestone anniversaries

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Israeli pop star Sarit Hadad.

The need for Israel 71 years later

Ask yourself and then your child: would you travel to Israel for free? Now ask: if necessary, would you travel to Israel to live?

THE TWENTY-FIRST Zionist Congress, Geneva, 1939.

Ze’ev Jabotinsky, his legacy and importance in Zionism

Many ideas that he wrote about in the 1920s and 1930s have now come to fruition such as the concept of individual and national pride, evident in his phrase, “every individual is a king.”

VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY (center left) visits Pinsk, Poland, in 1933 with Menachem Begin (right)

Coming home: the 120th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress

Even a year before the Congress, Herzl was mocked by Jewish-owned Austrian newspaper Wiener Allgemine Zeitung.

Theodor Herzl: ‘It felt as if the great dream of our nation, of 2,000 years.'

120 years later: 3 days in Basel that changed the course of the Jewish nation

The journey that was embarked on in the First Zionist Congress was the beginning of a Jewish transformation.

Theodor Herzl addresses the First or Second Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland