Hibbat Zion
Hibbat Zion was a pre-Zionist movement, beginning in the
1880s, advocating revival of Jewish life in the Land. Its adherents
worked toward the physical development of the Land, and founded
agricultural settlements in Palestine. By the time the First
Zionist Congress met in 1897, they had already begun to transform
the face of the Land. Herzl,
though, saw the aim of the Zionist
movement as a charter for a Jewish national entity in the Land of
Israel rather than its development through piecemeal settlement.
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