Benjamin Zeev Theodor Herzl was the founder of Political Zionism and founder of the Zionist Organization.

Leon Pinsker, born in Poland in 1839, was a prominent 19th-century Jewish leader, Zionist pioneer, physician, and writer.

1784 - 1862. Judith Montefiore (born Cohen) was a British linguist, musician, travel writer, philanthropist, and wife of Moshe Montefiore...

Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah ("The Hope"), expresses the Jewish people's longing to return to Israel, the land of their forefathers, after 2,000 years of exile following the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE.

The Israeli flag was originally the banner of the World Zionist Organization and was first adopted as a flag during the first Zionist Congress in 1897 (Basel, Switzerland).

During the second part of the 19th century, Jerusalem started to expand, and new neighborhoods were built outside the old city after thousands of years in which the residents of Jerusalem lived between the old walls.

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

Hovevei Zion is a collective name for Zionist associations founded in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century. These associations...

1843 - 1910. Source : Wikipedia, from the national Library of Israel. Moshe Yehuda Leib Lilienblum was a journalist and writer who wrote...

1845 - 1934. Baron Edmond de Rothschild / Source : Ramat-hanadiv.org.il Baron Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild was a French banker,...