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Theodore Herzl, the man credited with being the founder of modern Zionism, was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1860. Herzl was educated in the spirit of German-Jewish 'Enlightenment.' And whilst his parents were Jewish, Herzl had no religious sentiment. In 1902 Herzl adapted his creative and writing skills in a novel called Altneuland, (Old-New Land). The book was a nineteenth century "utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel."1 Although there were already Jewish settlers in Palestine and Zionist ideals had existed in Eastern Europe previously, Herzl made Zionism into a cultural and political movement that was to be accepted by Western governments and intellectuals. Herzl, along with other Jewish European leaders formed the World Zionist Organization, which aimed at promoting Jewish migration to and settlement in Palestine.2 Theodore Herzl studied law at the University of Vienna, and later became the Paris correspondent for the 'Vienna Free Press.' It is was...

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