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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. Hosea 9:10 After Theodor Herzl, known as the father of modern Jewish Zionism, passed away in 1904, Chaim Weizmann picked up the baton. Chaim was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization. He believed that the ancient homeland of Israel was the only practical solution for the Jewish people. One of the major results of Weizmann’s diplomacy was the Balfour Declaration. There was an integral relationship between WW 1 and Jewish Zionism. The first World War proved decisive in the history of Zionism. On November 2, 1917 the British government issued the Balfour declaration, pledging to facilitate the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people within Palestine. The mandate recognized the historical connection of the J