Series ISRAEL YESTERDAY, TODAY AND IN FUTURE with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. | In the last 100 years there were more changes in Palestine than in the previous 1000 years. The return of the Jews to the Holy Land changed everything in the Middle East area. |
1.Palestine 1880 – 1914 Theodor Herzl proclaimed his vision, founding a state for the Jews in their former country, which they had to leave nearly 2000 years ago. Between 1880 and 1914 about 65.000 Jews followed this vision and were willing to immigrate to Palestine. Most of them came from Russia. They had to buy the land from the Arabs.