{"id":15397,"date":"2017-02-06T10:09:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T08:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zionism.co.il\/?page_id=15397\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T20:12:01","slug":"hibbat-zion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.zionism.co.il\/en\/quiz-topics\/the-forerunners-of-zionism\/hibbat-zion\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hibbat Zion”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n“Hovevei Zion”\u00a0(Lovers of\u00a0Zion), also known as\u00a0“Hibbat Zion”
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\nThe beginning of the movement
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The name “Hibbat Zion” includes a number of Zionist organizations that were established in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century. They believed in having Jews come to settle the Land of Israel.
\nThe “Hovevei Zion” movement began spontaneously in several places, with no formal organization. Tens of such unrelated “Hovevei” Zion\u00a0 groups sprung up in Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Europe. Yet they all shared a common goal. They all believed in the need to “ascend” to the Land of Israel, to settle it, to work the land and finally, to establish a Jewish state. The members of these groups came from different streams, from assimilated Jews to famous rabbis, but their common aspiration was the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel. These groups had many different names, including Brotherhood of Zion, Lovers of Zion, Sons of Zion, Return to Zion, Love of Zion, Kibbutz Nidchei Israel, The Remnants of Israel, Ezra and Zrubavel.
\nBy the end of 1881, more than thirty “Hovevei Zion” organizations were founded in Romania.<\/p>\n

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\nThe reasons for the awakening of “Hovevi Zion”
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