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Theodore Herzl

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The Resume

    (May 2, 1860-July 3, 1904)
    Born in Pest, Hungary
    Birth name was Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl
    Wrote 'Der Judenstaat' ('The Jews' State,' 1896) and 'Altneuland' ('The Old New Land,' 1902)
    Organizer and president of the First Zionist Congress (1897)
    Considered the father of the modern Zionist movement

Why he might be annoying:

    Despite his interest in a Jewish homeland, he was lax about following the Jewish religion, to the degree that he did not have his son circumcised.
    He unsuccessfully tried to convince Sultan Abdulhamid II to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine in exchange for Jews paying off the Ottoman Empire's foreign debt.
    He nearly split the Zionist movement when he backed a British proposal to establish a Jewish autonomous region in Uganda (1903).
    In his writings, he insisted there would be no conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He wrote 'If you will it, it is no dream,' which was adopted as the Zionist movement's slogan.
    He backed Uganda not as a final homeland but as a temporary refuge for Russian Jews threatened by pogroms.
    His youngest daughter Trude died in a Nazi concentration camp.
    His dream of a Jewish homeland in Palestine came true less than fifty years after his death with the establishment of the nation of Israel.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 90.91% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 12 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 14 Votes: 92.86% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 20 Votes: 55.00% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 80 Votes: 55.00% Annoying