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Theodor Herzl ( Hebrew : תִאוַדָר הֶרְצֵל , Ti'vadar Hertzel ; Hungarian : Herzl Tivadar ; May 2, 1860 – July 3, 1904), born Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl ( Hebrew : בִּנְיָמִין זְאֵב הֶרְצֵל , also known in Hebrew as חוֹזֵה הַמְדִינָה , Khozeh HaMedinah , lit. "Visionary of the State") was a Jewish journalist and writer from Austria-Hungary . He is considered to have been the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the founder of the State of Israel . Herzl formed the World Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish migration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state. Death and Burial Herzl did not live to see the rejection of the Uganda plan. At 5 p.m. July 3, 1904 in Edlach, a village inside Reichenau an der Rax , Lower Austria , Theodor Herzl, having been diagnosed with a heart issue earlier in the year, died of cardiac sclerosis . A day before his death, he told the Reverend William H. Hechler : "Greet Palestine for me. I gave my heart's blood f...

Zionism ( Hebrew : ציונות ‎, Tsiyonut ; Arabic : صهيونية ‎, Ṣahyūniyya ) is the national movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the creation of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the Land of Israel . [ 1 ] A religious variety of Zionism supports Jews upholding their Jewish identity, opposes the assimilation of Jews into other societies and has advocated the return of Jews to Israel as a means for Jews to be a majority in their own nation, and to be liberated from antisemitic discrimination, exclusion, and persecution that had historically occurred in the diaspora . [ 1 ] Zionism emerged in the late 19th century in central and eastern Europe as a national revival movement, and soon after this most leaders of the movement associated the main goal with creating the desired state in Palestine , then an area controlled by the Ottoman Empire . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Since the establishment of the State of Israel , the Zionist movement continues primarily to advoca...

How you come to terms with Zionism is your affair; any coming to terms with it (indifference is out of the question) will give me pleasure. It is too soon to discuss it now, but should you one day feel yourself to be a Zionist (you flirted with it once, but these were mere flirtations, not a coming to terms), and subsequently realize that I am not a Zionist -- which would probably emerge from an examination -- it wouldn't worry me, nor need it worry you; Zionism is not something that separates well-meaning people.