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BETARÍ TIMELINE

On May 2 in Budapest in Budapest, Hungary Theodore Herzl is born

1860

The poet Naftali Hertz Imber writes the poetry "Hatikva"

1878

1880

On October 18 in Odessa, Ukraine Zeev Vladimir Jabotinsky is born

1880

On November 21 in Pyatigorsk, Russia, Iosef Trumpeldor is born

First wave of immigration to Palestine, better known as: La Primera Alia

1882

1890

Eliezer Ben Iehuda creates the first Hebrew language council and academy

1894

French Commander Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason

1895

Teodoro Herzl brings out the book titled as "The Jewish State"

1897

On August 29 in Basel the First World Zionist Congress is held

The Keren Kayemet LeIsrael is founded, in charge of buying lands from Israel

1901

1903

Jabotinsky participates in the sixth Zionist congress where he meets Herzl

It is the Kischinev Pogrom which leaves 49 dead and 700 houses destroyed

1903

1904

On July 3, the father of Zionism, Teodoro Herzl, dies

In the Russo-Japanese war, Theodore Herzl loses his left arm

1904

The second wave of immigration begins: The second alia

1904

On August 16, Menahem Begin is born in Brest, Belarus

1913

Beginning of the First World War

1914

Sykes - Picot agreement secretly made between English and French

1916

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