ABSTRACT
Evangelical Christians around the world also wished the movement to focus on Palestine, believing it was part of a divine scheme that would precipitate the second coming of the Messiah and the resurrection of the dead. The most significant wave towards Palestine was triggered in 1881 by a wave of pogroms in the Ukraine. It was a systematic series of massacres guided from above by the Czarist government. 'The Lovers of Zion' was the first formation of Zionist settlers making their way to Palestine. On the border between Poland and Germany in the city of Katowice, all the 'lovers of Zion' convened in 1884 and laid the foundations to the Zionist project in Palestine. Outside of Palestine, the most significant development was the internationalisation of the Zionist project through the work of Theodor Herzl, regarded in Israel as the father of modern Zionism.
