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Herzl
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Her·zl  (hrtsl), Theodor 1860-1904.
Hungarian-born Austrian founder of Zionism. As a correspondent during the Alfred Dreyfus affair, he determined that the solution to anti-Semitism was the establishment of a Jewish national state. He founded the Zionist World Congress in 1897.

Herzl (German) [ˈhɛrtsəl]
n
(Biographies / Herzl, Theodor (1860-1904) M, Austriannational of birth: Hungarian, WRITING: writer, POLITICS: Zionist) Theodor (ˈteːodoːr). 1860-1904, Austrian writer, born in Hungary; founder of the Zionist movement. In The Jewish State (1896), he advocated resettlement of the Jews in a state of their own


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Uganda was once considered by former colonial power Britain and the Zionist movement of Theodor Herzl as a possible land for the Jewish people.
Cairo had its own Zionist institute, and, according to the film, Zionist leader Theodor Herzl visited Egypt in 1903 to lend support to the Zionist project of creating a Jewish homeland between the Euphrates and the Nile.
Theodor Herzl, the father of political Zionism, envisioned a state that would resolve the tension of a "state that would be both Jewish and democratic; both a Jewish nation state and a state of all its citizens.
 
 
 
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