Hebrew translation: All Jews are responsible for one another. Universal Israelite Alliance's motto. The Alliance Israélite Universelle,...

Acronym: Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Venelkha Translation: "House of Jacob, come, let us walk" Biblical Source: Isaiah 2:5. In the early 1880s,...

Haim Nissim Amzlag was a Jewish businessman and community leader during the Yishuv period.

Abraham Isaac Kook, known as Rav Kook, was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel (in British Mandatory Palestine). He is considered one of the fathers of religious Zionism.

1870 - 1963. Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel was the first appointed High Commissioner for Palestine, in charge of the...

1858 - 1922. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, originally named Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, was a Russian linguist, grammarian, and journalist who played...

1856 - 1940. Born in Belarus to a Chabad Hasidic family, Zalman David Levontin was one of the pioneers of the first aliyah. He was one of...

1860 - 1904. Benjamin Zeev Theodor Herzl was the founder of Political Zionism and founder of the Zionist Organization. He was born to a...

1874 - 1941. David Florentin was a Jewish journalist and one of the founders of the Zionist movement in Thessaloniki. He was the first...

Decades before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the establishment of a Jewish state embodying Zionist ideology had already started.

Moshe Yitzhak Matlon was one of Tel Aviv's founders. The Matlon family first arrived in Israel from Iraq in 1817, over 200 years ago, playing a pioneering role in establishing the Jewish community in Jaffa.