List of prominent Zionist figures
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People who played important roles in the definition, development and growth of the modern Zionist movement:
- Chaim Arlosoroff
- David Ben-Gurion
- Meir Bar-Ilan, rabbi and leader of Religious Zionists (Mafdal)
- Dov Ber Borochov
- Abba Eban
- Aaron David Gordon
- Theodor Herzl, founding father of modern political Zionist movement
- Arthur Hertzberg
- Moses Hess
- Ahad Ha'am
- [[Matt Gershman]
- Zeev Jabotinsky, publicist, leader of Revisionist Zionism
- Meir Kahane, rabbi and leader of Israeli Kach party, proposed expelling all Arabs from Israel
- Berl Katznelson
- Abraham Isaac Kook, pro-Zionist first pre-state Chief Rabbi
- Moshe Leib Lilienblum
- Golda Meir
- Nahum Goldmann
- Samuel Mohilever
- Max Nordau
- Leon Pinsker
- Arthur Ruppin
- Solomon Schechter, spokesman for Zionism within Conservative Judaism
- Moshe Sharett
- Nahum Syrkin
- Joseph Trumpeldor
- Menachem Ussishkin
- Chaim Weizmann
- Orde Wingate, non-Jewish British army officer who trained the Haganah
- Israel Zangwill