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Fifth Congress - Basle, 1901
Herzl reported to the Congress
of his meeting with Sultan Abdul Hamid II of Turkey and of the progress
of the Jewish Colonial Trust. These achievements did not satisfy all the
delegates, in particular those associated with the recently formed Democratic
Faction.
The group
led by Leo
Motzkin, Martin
Buber and Chaim
Weizmann called on the Zionist movement to adopt a program of Hebrew
culture and a greater degree of democracy within the organization. The
more concrete achievement of the Congress was the establishment of the
Jewish National Fund (JNF) which was to
raise funds for land purchase in Palestine.
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