The Shanghai Zionist Association was founded on 26 April 1903 and was represented at the Sixth Zionist Congress, held at Basel. ... Elly Kadoorie was its president in 1915-1928 ...
Herbert Bentwich (1856-1932), a lawyer from a prominent English Jewish family in Hampstead, first visited Jerusalem in April, 1897, when he was forty years old, on a pilgrimage that he organized, with Thomas Cook Tours, for the Order of the Ancient Maccabeans (on whose behalf, in 1923, he acquired land for settlement at Gezer, near Ramleh). The first World Zionist Congress was about to convene i ...
Baruch (Benedict) Birnberg (1930-)
civil liberties and human rights lawyer ... set up his own firm in 1962
... company secretary for War on Want ... trustee of the Free Vanunu campaign
Birnberg's maternal grandfather was Herbert Bentwich, a friend of Herzl's, who toured Palestine in 1897 and spoke a ...
Max I. Bodenheimer (Stuttgart 1865-Jerusalem 1940) was a lawyer in Cologne and one of the main figures in German Zionism. Close to Theodor Herzl, whom he accompanied to Palestine in 1898, Bodenheimer was the first president of the Zionist Federation of Germany and one of the founders of the Jewish National Fund. A ...
Dr. Basel Ghattas is General Director of the Galilee Society (the Arab National Society for Health Research and Services) in Shefa 'Amr, in the heart of the Galilee, midway between Haifa and Nazareth.
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Bishop Samuel Edward Gobat (1799 -1879) Anglican bishop of Jerusalem, was born at Crémines, Bern, Switzerland.
After serving in the mission house at Basel from 1823 to 1826, he went to Paris and London, whence, having acquired some knowledge of Arabic and Ge'ez, he went out to Ethiopia under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society.
He visited Ethiopia twice, the first time fr ...
Ernest Goldberger, born in Basel in 1931, grew up in Switzerland, where he was active as an entrepreneur. He has lived in Israel since 1991. His book, entitled Die Seele Israels (The Soul of Israel), will appear early in 2004 from Neue Zürcher Zeitung-Fink Verlag.
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Jacobus Henricus Kann (1872-1944) was a banker and owner of Lissa & Kann Bank, which served
members of the Dutch royal family.
In 1897 he attended the first Zionist Congress in Basel. With David Wolfsohn,
future chairman of the World Zionist Federation, Kann founded the Jewish Colonial Trust. In 1902
Kann opened the Anglo-Palestine Bank in Jaffa, later known as Bank Leumi. He was amo ...
Lt.-Colonel (later Brigadier) Frederick Hermann Kisch (sometimes mis-transliterated, via Hebrew, as Kish) (1888-1943) CB, CBE, DSO, was born in India where his father, from a family whose origins were in Prague, had been the director of the Bengal mail.
Kisch served in the Royal Corps of Engineers, was wounded in Flanders, and was transferred to intelligence headquarters in London, where he de ...
Johann Krementzky (1850-1934) ... an engineer, born in Odessa who settled in Vienna in 1880 and built several factories ... An ardent Zionist, he became an adherent of Theodor Herzl; he served as a member of the Zionist Executive and the Zionist General Council and was appointed the first director of the ...
Ephraim Moses Lilien was born on May 23, 1874 in Drohobycz in Galicia, Austria, where he spent his childhood. Stefan Zweig, a later friend of Ephraim Moses Lilien, wrote about Galicië: it is a poor and pathetic land with grey, cold rocks in the Karpates.
After his second grade at the Gymnasium, Ephraim Moses Lilien was forced to leave school, because his father could not afford to pay th ...
Peter Martin Metzler (1824-1907) ... In 1858 the Protestant St. Chrischona Pilgrim Mission (German: Pilgermission St. Chrischona) near Basel sent out Peter Martin Metzler and his wife Dorothea, née Bauer (1831-1870) to establish a missionary outpost in Jaffa. Both earned their livelihood by several enterprises, such as a steam mill, a pilgrims' hostel and trading with European imported merchandis ...
Rosalind Nashashibi was born in 1973 in Croydon, south London, to a Palestinian father and an Irish mother. She studied at Sheffield Hallam University and Glasgow School of Art. Her work is shown internationally and she has recently had solo exhibitions in New York, Basel, Christchurch, London, Glasgow and Dublin. She won Beck’s Futures in 2003.
Nashashibi went to Jerusalem in 2002 for a ...
Basel Saleh is (2003) a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Kansas State University.
His father was born in a village called Salamah two to the east of Jaffa in 1940. Now it
is a Jewish settlement.
His mother was born in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1939. His father's v ...
Professor Hermann Zvi Hirsch Schapira (1840-1898) ... at the first Zionist conference in Basel, suggested the creation of a special national fund for the possession of land in Palestine ... Rabbi, mathematician and Zionist leader. The Russian pogroms of 1881 convinced him that a more activist role was necessary and he was among the first members of the Hovevei Zion movement, and, while a profess ...
Dr. Moritz (Moses) Tobias Schnirer (1861-1940) ... part of the Zionist Delegation to Jerusalem at the time of Wilhelm II's visit there in 1898. The delegation consisted of Theodore Herzl, Schnirer, David Wolfssohn, Dr. Max Bodenheimer, and Engineer Seidener, president of the Zionist groups in Germany
He and his wife committed suicide during WW2.
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Dr. Isaac Straus (1881-1933), merchant, industrialist; aided Weizmann in 1913-1914 in planning for Hebrew University; lived in Basel from 1924
... Born in Karlsruhe, Germany on 21 Dec 1881 to Samuel Straus and Isabella Feuchtwanger. He ...
Various Palestinian Citizens Of Israel
... signatories of the Haifa Declaration:
Joni Aasi,
Khaled Abu-Asbeh,
Hanna Abu-Hanna,
Ruwaida Abu Rass,
Thabet Abu Rass,
Ismael Abu-Saad,
Denees Asad,
Wadei Awawdy,
Khulood Badawi, ...
Jane Walker-Arnott (1834-1911) was a Scottish Presbyterian from Kinross. In 1863, she founded Jaffa Tabeetha Mission School, one of the first Arab girls' schools in Palestine.
a ...
The
World Zionist Organization was founded as the Zionist Organization, or ZO, in 1897 at the First Zionist Congress, held from 29 August to 31 August in Basel, Switzerland. The ZO served as an umbrella organization for the Zionist movement, which aimed at creating a Jewish State in Palestine. In January 1960 the ZO changed its name to the World Zionist Organization. The WZO's headquarters is i ...
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