Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months later, in Xylotombou camp, at a Sabbath-Eve meeting of the youth training group, Abraham met Zahava. She, too, had been captured by the British in Haifa Bay, almost within touch of the Promised Land. She had been in charge of a group of Zionist children on the ship Theodore Herzl and had traveled to the coast with her Belgian parents' blessings...
...Switzerland, young Weizmann met the leaders of Russian Zionism: Achad Ha-am ("One of the People"), the Gandhi of the Jewish renaissance, and Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, its practical leader. He also met Western Jews: assimilationists who wanted no part of Zionism ; dedicated Jews, like Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist Congress; elegant English Jews, like Sir Francis Montefiore, who wore white gloves to Congress meetings because he had to shake so many hands...
...next 30 years Weizmann fought the British policy, in love and in anger. Ousted as president of the Zionist Congress in 1931 for his "pro-British" methods, he returned, by invitation, to pick up the cudgels again in 1935. "Jews are not going to Palestine," he cried to the Colonial Office, "to become in their ancient home 'Arabs of the Mosaic faith.' " To his old friend, Ormsby-Gore (the Colonial Secretary), he wrote that the Zionist policy of cooperation with Britain in Palestine had remained unilateral-"it was unrequited love." In 1939 the love affair came...
...Zionist was discussing the future of their country with an immigrant newly arrived in Israel. "We have a great task before us here," he said. "We must make of Israel everything that Moses foresaw for the promised land." "Indeed we must," said the newcomer. "We must make a Switzerland of Israel," the oldtimer went on. "East and West may fight all around us, but we must keep ourselves detached from it as the Swiss have done with their policy of strict neutrality." "Yes, yes," said the newcomer. "We have few natural resources, but we must develop specialized industries and skills...
Morton Rosenstock '49, vice-President of the regtional section of the Zionist organization, is the chairman for the program...