1902

Britain proposes the El Arish scheme.

1903

Pogroms in Kishinev.

British Government suggests the "Uganda scheme" to Herzl, rejected by the Sixth Zionist Congress.

1904

Beginning of Second Aliyah mainly from Russia and Poland.

Va'ad Halashon [Language Council] formed.







Death of Herzl.

1905

Seventh Zionist Congress (Basel) rules out any alternative to Palestine (e.g., Uganda) as the objective of the Zionist enterprise.

1906

David Green (Ben-Gurion) arrives in Israel

First Hebrew high school founded [Jaffa].

Bezalel School of Art founded [Jerusalem].

1907

Eighth Zionist Congress adopts synthetic Zionism.

1908-1914

Second Yemenite Aliyah

1909

"HaShomer" defense patrols founded in Kfar Tabor.

Tel Aviv, the first modern all-Jewish city, founded.