JERUSALEM PROGRAM

Am Yisrael Foundation is a proud member of the World Zionist Organization & American Zionist Movement, thus we honorably stand by our commitment to the WZO’s Jerusalem Program.

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The Jerusalem Program is the official platform of the World Zionist Organization and the global Zionist movement, having been most recently amended and adopted in June 2004, as the successor statement to the “Basel Program” of 1897 adopted at the First Zionist Congress convened by Theodor Herzl. The Jerusalem Program states that: Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish People, brought about the establishment of the State of Israel, and views a Jewish, Zionist, democratic and secure State of Israel to be the expression of the common responsibility of the Jewish People for its continuity and future.

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The Jerusalem Program’s foundations of Zionism are:

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• The unity of the Jewish People, its bond to its historic homeland Eretz Yisrael, and the centrality of the State of Israel and Jerusalem, its capital, in the life of the nation;

• Aliyah to Israel from all countries and the effective integration of all immigrants into Israeli society.

• Strengthening Israel as a Jewish, Zionist and democratic state and shaping it as an exemplary society with a unique moral and spiritual character, marked by mutual respect for the multi-faceted Jewish People, rooted in the vision of the prophets, striving for peace and contributing to the betterment of the world.

• Ensuring the future and the distinctiveness of the Jewish People by furthering Jewish, Hebrew and Zionist education, fostering spiritual and cultural values and teaching Hebrew as the national language;

• Nurturing mutual Jewish responsibility, defending the rights of Jews as individuals and as a nation, representing the national Zionist interests of the Jewish People, and struggling against all manifestations of anti-Semitism;

• Settling the country as an expression of practical Zionism.