Zionism strives for the establishment of a publicly and legally secured home in Palestine for the Jewish people.

1. The appropriate promotion of colonization with Jewish agriculturists, artisans and tradesmen.
2. The organization and gathering of all Jews through suitable local and general institutions, according to the laws of the various countries.
3. The promotion of Jewish national feeling and consciousness.
4. Preparatory steps for the attainment of such Government consent as is necessarv in order to achieve the aim of Zionism.

* Translation of The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) from the original German after noting certain discrepancies between it and the published versions in Nahum Sokolow History of Zionism, 1600-1918, 1 (London, 1919), 268, (reproduced in J. C. Hurewitz, Diplomacy in the Year and Middle East, I [Princeton, N.J., 1956], 209), and in The ]ewish Encyclopedia. Sokolowerroneously gives the date as the 29th of August and seems to base his translation on the version of the Programme. reproduced in the minutes of the 10th Congress of 1911, (Stenographisches Protokoll der Verhandlungen des X Zionisten Kongresses in Basel [Beim juedischen Verlag, Berlin und Leipzig, 1911, p. 365), which, perhaps, explains the discrepancies, noted. The first Zionist Congress, which was held on August 29-31, 1897, in Basle, was organized by Theodor Herzl and attended by Jewish representatives from different parts of the world. At this congress the Zionist Organization was formally established on the basis of the above (Basle)
Programme.