Just over 100 years ago, Theodor Herzl launched the Zionist Movement. They called for a Jewish State in their ancestral land, Palestine. Fifty years later, the State of Israel came into being. Israel was established so that Jews anywhere in the world could have a homeland of their own. After independence, that process began with the in gathering of three quarters of a million Jews from Arab lands. As Communism disintegrated, more than a million Jews emigrated from the Soviet Union. Despite war and terror, Israel has sought peace through both secret and public negotiations. These efforts continue to this day, despite two major Palestinian uprisings.
Contents
Introduction; Herzl in Basle; First Kibbutz; Balfour Declaration; Liberation of Jerusalem; Jewish High Commissioner; Opening of Hebrew university; Jewish National Institutions; Partition; British Restrictions on jewish Immigration; European War; Closing the Doors to Holocaust Survivors; The UN Resolution; War of Independence; The Siege of Jerusalem; Mass Immigration of Jews from Arab Lands; Building the Jewish State; Six-Day War; Building Up a Modern Nation After; October War; "Let My People Go"; Terror in the Skies and at the Olympics; Search for Peace; Oslo Agreements; Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin; Israel Among the Nations; Continual Search for Peace; A Vibrant Land.