SLIDE TWO Theodor Herzl covers the Dreyfus Affair in Paris for Viennese newspaper “Neue Freie Presse”
August 17, 1949 – Theodor Herzl’s remains reinterred in Jerusalem
First Zionist Congress held in Basle, Switzerland August 29-31, 1897 – urges “a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine” for Jews and establishes the World Zionist Organization. Theodor Herzl elected president
Herzl sees Baron Edmond de Rothschild
Herzl publishes “The Jewish State” (“Der Judenstaat”)