First Zionist Congress

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

From morning to night, the delegates planted the seeds for building state institutions: The Jewish National Fund, the Zionist Organization. 

Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Congress, August 25, 1897
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

 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


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