Original Footage, Israel 1913
A PR movie for the 11th Zionist Congress of 1913 in Vienna, over 100 years ago! You see the beginnings of the State of Israel. The amount of work and thought that went into every aspect of Jewish life in the Jewish land, then under the rule of the Ottoman empire.
The video is over an hour long but as you watch you realize that no aspect of Jewish life in Israel has been overlooked. Art, language, construction, agriculture, education – all built upon Jewish values and ideas. When you visit Israel, it’s easy to forget that the national language, the sites, the agriculture, the culture and arts and museums and schools where all built and developed from absolutely nothing.
The rebirth of the Jewish People in its land is no less than a modern day miracle. To think that this video had disappeared and was only found by accident!