World Zionist Organization
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The World Zionist Organization, or WZO, is a non-governmental organization that promotes Zionism. It was founded as the Zionist Organization at the initiative of Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Con
The National Institutions House in Jerusalem - The building where the State of Israel was born - World Zionist Organization, Jewish National Fund - Keren Kayemet L'Israel (JNF-KKL), Jewish Agency, Keren Hayesod
Offices of WZO in Tel Aviv
Basel Stadtcasino in Basel in Switzerland
Member card of the (Polish) Zionist Organization, issued in 1929
Theodor Herzl
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Theodor Herzl was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine, which, in
World Zionist Organization
…or WZO, is a non-governmental organization that promotes Zionism. It was founded as the Zionist Organization (ZO; 1897–1960) at the initiative of Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Congress, which took place in August 1897 in Basel at the Stadtcasino Basel, Switzerland. The goals of the Zionist movement were…
Herzl, c. 1897
Herzl at the age of 5
Herzl (seated in the middle) with members of the Zionist Organization in Vienna, 1896
Herzl in Basel, photographed during Fifth Zionist Congress in December 1901, by Ephraim Moses Lilien