The 1900s

TIMELINE 13

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The 1900s

1900 to 1909

The Second Aliyah begins, the first kibbutz is founded and Tel Aviv rises beside Jaffa. The Bezalel art school opens in Jerusalem.

JEWISH LIFE IN THE LAND

1900 About 50,000 Jews live in the land.

1900 Rothschild transfers his colonies to the Jewish Colonization Association.

1901 The Jewish National Fund is founded to buy land.

1901 Kfar Tavor and Yavne’el are founded in the Galilee.

1903 The Uganda Plan. Britain offers land in East Africa after the Kishinev pogrom. The Zionist Congress debates it and rejects it in 1905.

1903 The Kishinev pogrom in Russia pushes more Jews to leave.

1903 The Anglo-Palestine Bank opens in Jaffa.

1904 Rabbi Kook arrives in Jaffa. Abraham Isaac Kook becomes rabbi of Jaffa and the farming villages and starts to bridge religious and secular Zionists.

1904 The Second Aliyah begins and brings thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe.

1904 Theodor Herzl dies in Austria at 44.

1904 A. D. Gordon arrives and preaches the dignity of labor.

1905 The Russian pogroms. Pogroms follow the failed revolution of 1905. They push Jews to the Second Aliyah and to America.

1905 The family of the painter Nahum Gutman comes to the land.

1905 The Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium opens in Jaffa.

1905 The Hapoel Hatzair labor party is founded.

1905 The Seventh Zionist Congress rejects the Uganda Plan.

1906 Jun 14 A pogrom in Bialystok kills dozens.

1906 The Bezalel art school opens in Jerusalem.

1906 David Ben-Gurion arrives in Jaffa.

1906 Aaron Aaronsohn finds wild wheat near Rosh Pina.

1907 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi arrives and joins Hashomer.

1908 Arthur Ruppin opens the Palestine Office in Jaffa.

1908 S. Y. Agnon arrives in Jaffa.

1908 The first volume of Ben-Yehuda’s Hebrew dictionary appears.

1909 Apr 11 Sixty families draw lots for plots in Tel Aviv.

1909 Tel Aviv and Degania. Jewish families found Tel Aviv beside Jaffa. The first kibbutz is founded at Degania.

1909 The Hashomer watchmen’s group forms to guard Jewish farms.

1909 Rachel Bluwstein arrives and later becomes a poet.

1909 Yosef Haim Brenner arrives in Jaffa.

RULERS OF THE LAND

1905 A branch of the Hejaz Railway links Haifa to Damascus.

1906 The Ottomans and Britain fix the border of Sinai from Rafah to Taba.

1908 The Young Turk revolution restores the Ottoman constitution.