Seven frenetic days traveling with Herzl to Paris, Basel, Vienna, Budapest and Israel, reliving the times and events that gave rise to the Zionist movement, celebrating the triumph of the Zionist idea together with Jewish communities of Europe, concluding with the celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut on Mt. Herzl in Israel.

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AZM Leadership outside the Herzl Museum in Jerusalem (left to right: Sondra Sokal, AZM Treasurer; Jan Schechter, AZM Cabinet member; Dr. David Breakstone, Chairman, WZO Department for Zionist Activities; and William Hess, AZM President.

Itinerary: April 14 – 20, 2010

Tuesday, April 13
Optional all-day programming
Overnight: Paris (optional)

Wednesday, April 14 Rosh Hodesh lyar
11:00am Wandering the streets of Paris with Herzl
(walking tour including lunch)
5:30pm Free time and dinner on own
8:00pm Gala opening  with Natan Sharansky, Hagai Meirom and Israel’s ambassador to France and the Jewish community of Paris

Overnight: Paris

Thursday, April 15 Rosh Hodesh lyar

8:30am – 12:00 Train to Basle
12:30pm “In Basle I Founded the Jewish State”
Herzl’s gamble on the Jewish future in a Swiss casino (tour & symposium, including lunch)
6:00pm Free time and dinner on own
8:30pm Tour bus to Zurich (1 hour)
10:40pm Overnight train to Vienna

Overnight: Sleeper Train

Friday, April 16
8:00am Arrival in Vienna
8:30am Cafe Griensteidl and the Jewish Question: Exploring Jewish Vienna
12:30pm Lunch w/ Viennese Jewish Community
2:00pm Tour bus to Budapest (3 hours)
5:30pm Check-in at hotel
7:14pm Candle lighting
7:30pm Kabbalat Shabbat and dinner with Minister Yuli Edelstein and Israeli ambassador to Hungary

Overnight: Budapest

Shabbat, April 17
Tazria-Metzora
T’fillot in variety of synagogues
12:00pm Kiddush and lunch in Dohany Synagogue with the Budapest community
2:00pm Walking tour of Budapest
5:00pm Free time
7:30pm Dinner
8:23pm Havdalah
9:00pm Melave Malka at Beit Tarbut Yisrael with communuity leadership and Dor Hemshech

Overnight: Budapest

Sunday, April 18
10:30am Flight to Israel
2:00pm Arrival in Israel
5:00pm Check-in at hotel; Free time and dinner on own
7:30pm The Dream and Its Price- Memorial Day ceremony and evening program

Overnight: Jerusalem

Monday, April 19      Yom Hazikaron
9:00am WZO/JAFI Yom Hazikaron Ceremony
10:00am WZO VIP Welcome
11:00am Memorial siren
11:15am Herzl and Jerusalem- Imagining the Future (tour and reception w/ Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat- invited)
4:00pm Free time and dinner on own
6:30pm Depart for gala Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration on Mt. Herzl

Overnight: Jerusalem

Tuesday, April 20   Yom Ha’atzmaut

10:00am With Herzl in Altneuland (tour including the Herzl Museum and “al ha-aish” lunch at Keren Kayemet project with Efi Stenzler, KKL-JNF Chair)
4:00pm Program conclusion

Estimated cost of basic package (subject to change): $1,985, including 6 nights hotel (bed and breakfast) based on double occupancy, plus 7 additional meals, all scheduled tours, events and activities from April 14 in Paris through April 20 in Israel.

MISSION OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE ZIONIST CAUSE
A JOURNEY WITH HERZL IN PURSUIT OF THE ZIONIST IDEA:

See photos from the event, which took place April 14 – 20, 2010.

HERZL UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL: TRAVELING EXHIBITION

I truly believe that even after we possess our land, Zionism will not cease to be an ideal. For Zionism includes not only the yearning for a plot of promised land legally acquired for our weary people, but also the yearning for ethical and spiritual fulfillment.

Now, 150 years after Herzl was born, it is up to a new generation to embrace this visionary’s legacy and it its own.  This exhibition rich in archival visuals and thought-provoking text, was produced with that objective in mind.  It is not only about Herzl; it is about how contemporary Jews might shape their personal relationship to Israel and the Jewish people.  This exhibit is available for rental; for more information visit here.

THE ZIONIST SHEKEL

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It was Herzl’s way of inviting the entire Jewish world to express support for the Zionist idea, and enabling all who wished to take an active role in the Zionist enterprise to do so.  In honor of his 150th birthday, the WZO will issue a limited edition, beautifully designed Zionist Shekel note capturing the excitement of the early days of the movement as well as the challenges that Herzl’s legacy demands we still meet.

Learn more about the shekel certificate.