Herzl

When discussing the establishment of Israel, many people give much credit to Theodor Herzl. Herzl, a Jewish journalist who was born and raised in Budapest, known as the founder of the Zionist movement. In fact, Herzl was the one who took the Zionist idea and turned it into a political idea, which is basically the establishment of the Jewish state. Years later, Herzl received the title of "the predictor of the Jewish state". Supposedly, this title confirms the conventional wisdom that Herzl is the main person responsible for the establishment of the State of Israel. But can we assume that without Herzl, the Jewish state would not get up? Or we can assume that Herzl was just in the right place at the right time?

First, we have to understand the origin of the word "Zionism" – which is the other name of Jerusalem in the Bible. The modern term coined by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890, to describe the movement of "Lovers of Zion" (חובבי ציון). Later, when Birnbaum attended the First Zionist Congress, Herzl took the name and adopted it as the official name of …show more content…
Although long before that time there were always streams of Judaism Expressed a yearning to return to Zion, in fact to return to history.

Jews suffered from pogroms and abuse not only in Europe but almost all over the world, and the thought about the need for a Jewish state arose in other places besides Europe. For example, in 1881 the Jews who lived in the Russian empire suffered from pogroms and Strong anti-Semitism.
A small portion of them decided to immigrate to Israel under the influence of the two main people- Moses Lilienblum and Yehuda Pinsker. Already in 1882, the city of Rishon Lezion was founded by two movements- "Lovers of Zion" and "ועד יסוד המעלה". In fact, it was the first Zionist settlement in