Eleiezar Ben Yehuda Perlman took the biblical language and made it usable in modern terms - the glue of the nation. People know the language from prayer but ben Yehuda has the first Hebrew conversation in Paris. He comes to Palestine and decides they (he and wife Devora) will only speak Hebrew (not Turkish or Arabic). Ben Yehuha and his wife had a son and determined to only speak to him in Hebrew. He created a social circle to speak with and creates a dictionary. He teaches Hebrew in a French school. Hebrew then becomes the national language of Palestine/Israel. Hebrew was recognized by the British as the official language. A symbol of revival of the Jewish people in a Jewish homeland.
Theodore Herzl was born in 1860 in Vienna, Austria. He had no connection to Judaism. He was a journalist and went to Paris for the Dreyfus trial - Dreyfus was framed for treason and sent to exile. After the Dreyfus trial he realizes he must be proactive and becomes obsessed with moving people to a homeland. The World Zionist Movement was started in 1897. Herzl advocates for the Jewish people to return to Palestine. The young people of Europe heard him and followed his dream of moving to Palestine - Halutzim (pioneers). Christian evangelists also heed the call and are focused on returning the Jewish exiles to Palestine.
Herzl dies in 1904 but prophesized that there would be a Jewish homeland in the next five decades. He was buried in Vienna, but his remains were moved to Israel in 1949 - he is buried on Mt. Herzl.
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