The road to the State
Ideas, waves of aliyah and diplomacy, from Alkalai to 1948.
Open the chronicle on the mapThree stories run together here: those who imagined a return, those who actually came, and those who won its recognition. Follow any one line, or watch how the three feed each other.
Visionaries 9 moments
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer1795 – 1874
Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai1798 – 1878
Moses Hess1812 – 1875
Leon Pinsker1821 – 1891
Ahad Ha’am1856 – 1927
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda1858 – 1922
Theodor Herzl1860 – 1904
Chaim Weizmann1874 – 1952
Ze’ev Jabotinsky1880 – 1940