First Zionist Congress

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

The ideology of state Zionism formed the basis for the creation of the State of Israel, and today we must consider what a renewed form of state Zionism might entail.

|ByDR. HAIM BEN YAKOV, EURO-ASIAN JEWISH CONGRESS DIRECTOR GENERAL
Dr. Haim Ben Yaakov
President Isaac Herzog addresses the event marking the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress in Basel on August 29 2022.

Extraordinary Zionist Congress to take place in Jerusalem next week

Over 2,000 Jewish leaders and young people from Israel and all over the world will gather at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
CELEBRATIONS TAKE place in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the UN voted to pave the way for the creation of Israel, on November 29, 1947

Celebrating 75 years of Theodor Herzl's Zionist idea - opinion

The world recognized Theodor Herzl's old-new Zionist idea, Jews are a people tied to a particular homeland with the right to establish a Jewish state in their homeland.

|ByGIL TROY
Rabbi David Fine (L) is seen shaking hands with Religious Zionist Party leader MK Bezalel Smotrich.

A need for strong religious Zionist political representation

For many Israelis, the role of the religious Zionism is narrowly conceived as being solely related to issues of land and the military response to our enemies but it is so much more than that.

|ByDAVID FINE

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.”

JULY 11, 2018ByYAAKOV HAGOEL
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.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017ByGOL KALEV
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.

AUGUST 30, 2017ByGOL KALEV
Theodor Herzl addresses the First or Second Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland