Zionism, Jewish patriot development that has had as its objective the creation and backing of a Jewish national state in Palestine, the antiquated country of the Jews (Hebrew: Eretz Yisraʾel, "the Land of Israel"). In spite of the fact that Zionism started in eastern and focal Europe in the last part of the nineteenth century, it is from multiple points of view a continuation of the old connection of the Jews and of the Jewish religion to the chronicled area of Palestine, where one of the slopes of antiquated Jerusalem was called
