Israel, the Blessed Country « My Random Ramblings

About 10 years after the birth of the Political Zionist movement, on August 23, 1897, Herzl held the first World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. “The congress established the World Zionist Organization (WZO), whose primary goal was ... and as the British War Cabinet decided formally that 'all practicable steps should be taken to discourage illegal immigration into Palestine', an Extraordinary Zionist Conference was held at the Biltmore Hotel in New York. ...