Zvi Hirsch Kalischer- Was an Orthodox German rabbi who expressed views, in favor of the Jewish re-settlement of the Land of Israel
Hovevei Zion- refers to a variety of organizations that were founded in 1881 in response to the Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire
Menachem Ussishkin- A Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund. In 1920 he was appointed head of the Zionist Commission in Israel.
Chaim Weizmann- Zionist leader, and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel
Rabbi Judah Alkalai- was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi and one of the influential precursors of modern Zionism
Theodor (Binyamin Ze’ev) Herzl- Herzl was the visionary behind modern Zionism and the reinstitution of a Jewish homeland.
