JERUSALEM: Exactly one hundred years ago, the Zionist movement was founded. A few hundred Jewish intellectuals -- writers, doctors, lawyers, even a few women -- mainly from Eastern Europe, came together in Basil, Switzerland. This was the first Zionist Congress, chaired by a then only moderately-known Viennese journalist and playwright Theodor Herzl.
JERUSALEM: Exactly one hundred years ago, the Zionist movement was founded. A few hundred Jewish intellectuals -- writers, doctors, lawyers, even a few women -- mainly from Eastern Europe, came together in Basil, Switzerland. This was the first Zionist Congress, chaired by a then only moderately-known Viennese journalist and playwright Theodor Herzl.