List of known Zionists

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List of people who played a prominent role in defining, developing and promoting the modern Zionist movement:

  • Chaim Arlosoroff (1899–1933), murdered Mapai leader
  • David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), Israeli statesman
  • David Baazov (1883–1947), Georgian Jewish Zionist leader
  • Meir Bar-Ilan (1880-1949), rabbi and leader of the Religious Zionists ( National Religious Party )
  • Menachem Begin (1913–1992), Prime Minister of Israel
  • Hugo Bergman (1883–1975), German-speaking Zionist, cultural philosopher, one of the “fathers” of the Jewish National and University Library
  • Dov Ber Borochov (1881–1917), socialist and Zionist, co-founder of the World Association of Poalei Tzion
  • Max Isidor Bodenheimer (1865–1940), pioneer of German (“Cologne”) Zionism
  • Abba Eban (1915–2002), Israeli diplomat, minister and member of the Knesset
  • Recha Freier (1892–1984), German-speaking teacher and poet, resistance fighter, founded the Jung-Women's International Zionist Organization and the children's youth Alijah
  • Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982), founder and longstanding President of the World Jewish Congress, the "voice of the diaspora"
  • Aharon David Gordon (1856–1922), Zionist writer and philosopher, ideologue of "Hebrew labor"
  • Dov Gruner (1912–1947), executed Zionist underground fighter
  • Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), pioneer, leader and successful politician of political Zionism , actual father of the State of Israel
  • Arthur Hertzberg (1921–2006), conservative rabbi and Zionist
  • Moses Hess (1812–1875), father of modern socialism, “communist rabbi”, pioneer of socialist Zionism
  • Ahad Ha'am (1856–1927), father of cultural Zionism
  • Zeev Jabotinsky (1880–1940), publicist, radical Zionist activist, father of revisionist Zionism
  • Meir Kahane (1932–1990), rabbi, radical Zionist, leader of the Kach party
  • Berl Katznelson (1887–1944), leader of the Zionist labor movement and central figure of the Second Aliyah , confidante and friend of Ben Gurion
  • Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), one of the most important spiritual fathers of religious Zionism
  • Johann Kremenezky (1848–1934), industrialist and Zionist, founder and 1st President of the Jewish National Fund
  • Moshe Leib Lilienblum (1843–1910), Hebrew writer, Jewish reformer and pioneer of the Palestinophile movement
  • Golda Meir (1898–1978), Israeli foreign minister for many years and first prime minister of Israel
  • Samuel Mohilever (1824–1898), Polish rabbi, founder of religious Zionism
  • Max Nordau (1849–1923), doctor, writer, co-founder of the World Zionist Organization
  • Leon Pinsker (1821–1891), doctor and journalist, forerunner and pioneer of Zionism
  • Arthur Ruppin (1876–1943), sociologist, Zionist and pioneer of the founding of Tel Aviv
  • Pinchas Ruthenberg (1879–1942), engineer and entrepreneur, Russian socialist and Zionist leader
  • Solomon Schechter (1847–1915), Romanian rabbi, father of conservative Judaism, early supporter of Zionism
  • Moshe Sharett (1894–1965), Israeli politician, second Prime Minister of Israel
  • Nachman Syrkin (1868–1924), founder and leader of socialist Zionism
  • Joseph Trumpeldor (1880–1920), former Zionist, Jewish hero who gave his life for Israel
  • Margarete Turnowsky-Pinner (1884–1982), German-speaking social scientist in Palestine and Israel, social scientist
  • Menachem Ussischkin (1863–1941), leading Zionist, long-time president of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and one of the pioneers of the movement
  • Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), chemist, Israeli politician and Zionist leader, 1949 to 1952 first Israeli President
  • Felix Weltsch (1884–1964), journalist, writer, philosopher and librarian
  • Robert Weltsch (1891–1982), Zionist leader in Europe
  • Orde Wingate (1903–1944), non-Jewish, Christian Zionist, British officer, instructor of the Hagana
  • Israel Zangwill (1864–1926), British Jewish writer, journalist and Zionist activist
  • Theodor Zlocisti (1874–1943), doctor, writer, socialist, one of the first Zionists

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