ISRAEL 1973 100 lLIROT P-41 , PMG 67 EPQ .Superb Gem UNC

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ISRAEL 1973  100 lLIROT  P41 , PMG 67 EPQ .Superb Gem UNC
100 Lirot
Obverse:  Theodor Herzl
Reverse:  Zion Gate
Dominant color:  blue
Dimensions:  147 x 76 mm
Signatures:  Moshe Sanbar, Governor Bank of Israel; David Horowitz, Chairman Advisory Council
Printers (unverified):  National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Date of issue:  14 March 1975
The 100 Lirot (Bank of Israel series IV) banknote is dedicated to Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), founder of the modern Zionist movement and visionary of Israel. Theodor (Hebrew: Binyamin Ze'ev) Herzl was born in Budapest in 1860. After his move to Vienna he became a writer, playwright and journalist, working as the Paris correspondent of the influential liberal Vienna newspaper Neue Freie Presse. Having encountered anti-Semitism from an early age, one single anti-Semitic outrage would shape his life and the fate of the Jews in the twentieth century, the Dreyfus affair. Witnessing mobs shouting "Death to the Jews" in Paris, the cradle of the French Revolution, he came to the conclusion that the Jewish problem is not a social issue, that anti-Semitism is a stable and immutable factor in human society which assimilation cannot solve, and that the only way out of this impasse is the transformation of all Jews worldwide into one nation with a Jewish state of its own. Herzl's ideas were met with enthusiasm by the Jewish masses, especially in Eastern Europe, and the result was the convening of the First Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland, on August 29-31, 1897, where the "Basle Program" of the Zionist Movement was adopted, declaring that "Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine...". At the Congress the World Zionist Organization was established as the political arm of the Jewish people, and Herzl was elected its first president. Herzl convened six Zionist Congresses between 1897 and 1902. It was here that the tools for Zionist activism were forged: the Jewish Colonial Trust and the Jewish National Fund. After the First Zionist Congress, the movement met yearly at an international Zionist Congress. Herzl tried to gain acceptance from the great powers.
In 1898 he traveled to
the Land of Israel to meet with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and to Constantinople (Istanbul) to meet with the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, without success.
Thereafter he turned to Great Britain, where he was offered a Jewish autonomous region in Kenya (erroneously referred to as Uganda). At the Sixth Zionist Congress (1903), Herzl proposed the British Uganda Program as a temporary refuge for Jews in immediate danger. While he made it clear that this program would not affect the ultimate aim of Zionism, a Jewish entity in the Land of Israel, the proposal aroused a storm at the Congress and nearly led to a split in the Zionist movement. The Uganda Program was finally rejected by the Zionist movement at the Seventh Zionist Congress in 1905. Herzl died in Vienna in 1904, of pneumonia and a weak heart overworked by his incessant efforts on behalf of Zionism. By then the movement had found its place on the world political map. In May 1948 Theodor Herzl's vision became reality with the establishment of the State of Israel, and in 1949 his remains were reinterred on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
The obverse of the banknote shows the effigy of Theodor Herzl with the entrance gate to Mount Herzl in the background.
Its reverse depicts the Zion Gate of Jerusalem.
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