List of Zionists
People who played important roles in the definition, historical development and growth of the modern Zionist movement:
- Abba Ahimeir (1897–1962), born in Russia, immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, c.1924
- Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) born in Russia, left for New York after witnessing the 1905 pogroms; advocated Zionism in his writings
- Chaim Arlosoroff
- David Baazov
- Meir Bar-Ilan, rabbi and leader of Religious Zionists (National Religious Party)
- Menachem Begin
- David Ben-Gurion
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
- Hugo Bergmann (1883–1975) born in Austria-Hungary, immigrated to Palestine in 1920
- Max Bodenheimer
- Dov Ber Borochov
- Max Brod
- Abba Eban
- Albert Einstein, scientist who supported the Zionist movement. Albert Einstein's political views#Zionism
- Israel Eldad
- Nahum Goldmann
- Aaron David Gordon
- Uri Zvi Greenberg
- Dov Gruner
- Ahad Ha'am
- Theodor Herzl, founding father of modern political Zionist movement
- Arthur Hertzberg
- Moses Hess
- Zeev Jabotinsky, publicist, leader of Revisionist Zionism
- Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, one of Zionism's earliest pioneers in Germany.
- Berl Katznelson
- Abraham Isaac Kook, pro-Zionist first pre-state Chief Rabbi
- Moshe Leib Lilienblum
- Golda Meir
- Samuel Mohilever
- Max Nordau
- Leon Pinsker
- Ruth Popkin, led Hadassah and the Jewish National Fund
- Isaac Rülf
- Arthur Ruppin
- Pinhas Rutenberg
- Solomon Schechter, spokesman for Zionism within Conservative Judaism
- Moshe Sharett
- Abraham Stern
- Nahum Syrkin
- Henrietta Szold, Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
- Bernice Tannenbaum, activist with Hadassah
- Joseph Trumpeldor
- Menahem Ussishkin
- Chaim Weizmann
- Felix Weltsch
- Robert Weltsch
- Orde Wingate, non-Jewish British army officer who trained the Haganah
- L. L. Zamenhof
- Israel Zangwill
- A. L. Zissu
- Baruch Zuckerman (1887–1970), American-Israeli Zionist, Yad Vashem proponent
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