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Judaica / Zionism - Judaica / Zionism - Medal 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Zeev Herzl - 1960 - Gold 900, 8g Benjamin Zeev Theodor Herzl May 2, 1860 - July 3, 1904) was a Jewish journalist, jurist, writer, playwright and statesman, born in Budapest. Developer of the idea of ​​political Zionism and founder of Zionism as an institutionalized national-political movement. In the Zionist movement, and later in the Jewish public in the locality of Eretz Israel and around the world, as well as in literature, art and research, he was awarded the title "State Contract". From the convening of the first Zionist Congress in 1897 until Herzl's death, the Zionist movement became a political and practical, dynamic and significant movement. Herzl's ideas resonated with European Jewry, reaching Jewish communities around the world. The support of the Jewish masses for the ideas of Zionism influenced the increase in the waves of immigration to the Land of Israel, and it was this that ultimately enabled the establishment of the State of Israel. Face: The relief of his face looks to the left of Benjamin Zeev Herzl, around the inscription "Herzl" in Hebrew and English and to the left the year of his birth and death "1860-1904" Back: In the center: a lamp with candles lit, at the bottom, Stars of David with the date of the establishment of the State of Israel. At the bottom of the date of establishment of the state, on the sides olive tree branches and above "Israel"