UntilAugust29, 1897 in Basel, Switzerlandheldthe firstWorldZionistCongress, onlytoend upin the eyes of the Jewishculture of the root - the Palestinians.
The visionary Austrian-Jewish journalist, Theodore Herzl, clarified and gave political weight to the concept of Jewish nationalism - or Zionism - and a national home for the Jews in Palestine at the firstZionistCongress at Basle, in Switzerland, in 1897.