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Menachem Ussishkin
1863 - 1941. Menachem Ussishkin was a Zionist leader born in Belarus. Starting in 1878, he developed a passion for reading contemporary...
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Ze'ev Jabotinsky
1880 - 1940. Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Zionist leader, writer, orator, soldier, and journalist. He strongly advocated for the creation of a...
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Theodor Herzl
1860 - 1904. Benjamin Zeev Theodor Herzl was the founder of Political Zionism and founder of the Zionist Organization. He was born to a...
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Leon Pinsker
1821 - 1891. Leon Pinsker, born in Poland in 1839, was a prominent 19th-century Jewish leader, Zionist pioneer, physician, and writer. He...
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Judith Montefiore
1784 - 1862. Judith Montefiore (born Cohen) was a British linguist, musician, travel writer, philanthropist, and wife of Moshe...
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David Florentin
1874 - 1941. David Florentin was a Jewish journalist and one of the founders of the Zionist movement in Thessaloniki. He was the first...
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Solomon Florentin
1864 - 1946. Solomon Florentin. Source: Wikipedia. Shlomo (Salomon) Yaakov Florentin was a contractor and entrepreneur of Thessaloniki...
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The Israeli Flag
The Israeli flag was originally the banner of the World Zionist Organization and was first adopted as a flag during the first Zionist...
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Moshe Montefiore
1784 - 1885. Moshe Montefiore, an English Sephardic Jew born in Italy, was a financier, banker, Zionist activist, and philanthropist. He...
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Beyond the Walls of Jerusalem
During the second part of the 19th century, Jerusalem started to expand, and new neighborhoods were built outside the old city after...
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The Land of Israel before the first Aliyah (1882)
Decades before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the establishment of a Jewish state embodying Zionist ideology had already...
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