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Monday, August 29, 2022
Herzog reenacts photo of Herzl on balcony while attending Zionist congress anniversary
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Composite photo showing Theodor Herzl, left, on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, August 1897, and President Isaac Herzog on the same balcony, August 29, 2022. (GPO)
While in the Swiss city of Basel to mark 125 years since the First Zionist Congress, President Isaac Herzog is photographed standing in the famous pose struck by Theodore Herzl on the balcony of the hotel where the event was held.
The photo of Herzl, who is credited with having “founded the Jewish state” with the first gathering in 1897, was taken in 1901 during the Fifth Zionist Congress.
Herzog tweets a copy of the photograph, adding a quote from Herzl: “Zionism is an infinite ideal.”
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