Sir Leon Simon (Hebrew: אריה (לאון) סימון; 11 July 1881 – 27 April 1965) was a leading British Zionist intellectual and civil servant who took part in the drafting of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and served on the Zionist Commission with Chaim...
Leon (Ancient Greek: λέων, romanized: léon; leōn) is a first name of Greek origin, meaning "lion". It gave rise to similar names in other languages, including the Latin Leo, French Lyon or Léon, Irish Leon, Spanish León, Armenian Levon / Լևոն or...
Zionism is an ethnic nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through colonization in the region of Palestine, which roughly corresponds to the Land of Israel in Judaism—itself central...
Zionist Commission for Palestine was a commission chaired by Chaim Weizmann, president of the British Zionist Federation following British promulgation of the pro-Zionist, Balfour Declaration. The Commission was formed in March 1918 and went to...
Simon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include the following.
Labor Zionism (Hebrew: ציונות סוציאליסטית, romanized: tziunut socialistit) is the left-wing, socialist variant of Zionism. For many years, it was the most significant tendency among Zionists and Zionist organizations, and was seen as the Zionist...
Cultural Zionism (Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת רוּחָנִית, romanized: Tsiyonut ruchanit, lit. 'Spiritual Zionism') is a strain of Zionism that focused on creating a center in historic Palestine with its own secular Jewish culture and national history,...
Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( KYME WYTES-mən; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Belarusian-British-Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He...
Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 – 2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am (Hebrew: אַחַד הָעָם, lit. 'one of the people', Genesis 26:10), was a Hebrew journalist and essayist, and one of the foremost...
Zionism, as an organised nationalist movement, is generally considered to have been founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897, the year of the First Zionist Congress of the Zionist Organization. Earlier movements in the 19th century, described as...