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==Quotes==
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*The Land of Israel is the holiest of lands.
*Palestine is the holiest of all countries
**''Numbers Rabbah'', 7.8.
**Mishnah, quoted in ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', “[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11867-palestine-holiness-of Holiness of Palestine].”


*The generation of Jews we wish to raise in the Land of Israel will be not of the twelfth or of the twentieth century, but, on the one hand, of the thirtieth, and, on the other hand, of a much earlier age, earlier than your entire era, of the period of the Prophets and the Hasmoneans.
*The generation of Jews we wish to raise in the Land of Israel will be not of the twelfth or of the twentieth century, but, on the one hand, of the thirtieth, and, on the other hand, of a much earlier age, earlier than your entire era, of the period of the Prophets and the Hasmoneans.
**Samuel Mohilever, letter to S. Reinach. 1896. Quoted in  J. Mark. ''Gdoilim fun undzer Dor''. New York, 1927, 245.
**[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/samuel-mohilever Samuel Mohilever], letter to S. Reinach. 1896. Quoted in  J. Mark. ''Gdoilim fun undzer Dor''. New York, 1927, 245.


*The Land of Israel will be small but the people of Israel will make it great. ... Not in opulence but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.
*The Land of Israel will be small but the people of Israel will make it great. ... Not in opulence but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.
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*The air of the Land of Israel makes one wise.
*The air of the Land of Israel makes one wise.
**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/zeeira Rabbi Zeira]. ''Talmud: Baba Bathra'', 158b.
**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/zeeira Rabbi Zeira]. Talmud: ''Baba Bathra'', 158b.


*Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the Land of Israel... And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land.
*Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the Land of Israel... And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land.
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*The Holy One, Blessed be He, gave Israel three precious gifts... These gifts are: Torah, Eretz Israel, and the World-to-Come.
*The Holy One, Blessed be He, gave Israel three precious gifts... These gifts are: Torah, Eretz Israel, and the World-to-Come.
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13723-simeon-ben-yohai Rabbi Shim‘on ben Yoḥai], ''Talmud: Berakhot'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.5a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en 5a:20].
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13723-simeon-ben-yohai Rabbi Shim‘on ben Yoḥai], Talmud: ''Berakhot'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.5a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en 5a:20].


*Upon you, upon the youth, will it depend whether Palestine is to be come the center of mankind or a Jewish Albania, the salvation of nations or the toy of the Powers. Zion will not arise in the physical world if you do not prepare for it in your souls.
*Upon you, upon the youth, will it depend whether Palestine is to be come the center of mankind or a Jewish Albania, the salvation of nations or the toy of the Powers. Zion will not arise in the physical world if you do not prepare for it in your souls.
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*Women will bear daily. ... Trees will yield fruit daily... Eretz Israel will bring forth ready cakes and woolen robes.
*Women will bear daily. ... Trees will yield fruit daily... Eretz Israel will bring forth ready cakes and woolen robes.
**Gamaliel II. ''Talmud: Sabbath'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.30b.10?lang=bi 30b].
**Gamaliel II. Talmud: ''Sabbath'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.30b.10?lang=bi 30b].


*It is hard to be a worker; it is a hundred times harder to be a Jewish worker; it is a thousand times harder to be a Jewish worker in Eretz Israel.
*It is hard to be a worker; it is a hundred times harder to be a Jewish worker; it is a thousand times harder to be a Jewish worker in Eretz Israel.
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*There is no greater service for the pious Jew to perform than to rebuild the ruins of the Holy Land
*There is no greater service for the pious Jew to perform than to rebuild the ruins of the Holy Land
**[[zionism-israel:bio/kalischer_biography.htm|Zvi Hirsch Kalischer]], ''Derishat Zion'', 1862. Quoted in Hess, ''Rome & Jerusalem'', 264.
**[[zionism-israel:bio/kalischer_biography.htm|Zvi Hirsch Kalischer]], ''Derishat Zion'', 1862. Quoted in Hess, ''Rome & Jerusalem'', 264.
*Writers in Israel are as holy as the Land of Israel.
**''Pesikta Kahana'', chapter 5.


*Palestine is the center of the world, Jerusalem the center of Palestine, and the Temple the center of Jerusalem. ... In the Holy of Holies there was a stone, the foundation of the world.
*Palestine is the center of the world, Jerusalem the center of Palestine, and the Temple the center of Jerusalem. ... In the Holy of Holies there was a stone, the foundation of the world.
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*Gentiles outside of Palestine are not to be condemned as idolaters, for they only follow their fathers' practices.
*Gentiles outside of Palestine are not to be condemned as idolaters, for they only follow their fathers' practices.
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8719-johanan-b-nappaha-ha-nappah Johanan b. Nappaḥa]. ''Talmud: Hullin'', 13b.
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8719-johanan-b-nappaha-ha-nappah Johanan b. Nappaḥa]. Talmud: ''Hullin'', 13b.


*Zion is greater than a piece of land in the Near East. Zion is greater than a Jewish commonwealth in this land. Zion is memory, admonition, promise. Zion is . . . the foundation stone of the messianic upbuilding of humanity. It is the unending task of the Jewish people.
*Zion is greater than a piece of land in the Near East. Zion is greater than a Jewish commonwealth in this land. Zion is memory, admonition, promise. Zion is . . . the foundation stone of the messianic upbuilding of humanity. It is the unending task of the Jewish people.
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*The Land of Israel will be small but the people of Israel will make it great. ... Not in opulence but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.
*The Land of Israel will be small but the people of Israel will make it great. ... Not in opulence but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.
**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/judaism-biographies/abba-hillel-silver Abba Hillel Silver], ''Vision and Victory'', 1949.
**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/judaism-biographies/abba-hillel-silver Abba Hillel Silver], ''Vision and Victory'', 1949.
*When the Jewish people will have redeemed the Land of Israel, the Land of Israel will redeem the Jewish people.
**Menachem Ussishkin. ''Eretz Israel'', 1932, p. 4.


*To bring water to the thirsty earth, shade to the sun-parched sands, the laughter of children to a countryside where only jackals howl; to unearth the good soil under the rocks, to push back the desert, and remove the last swamps—these are among the tasks of the Jewish National Fund in its second fifty years.
*To bring water to the thirsty earth, shade to the sun-parched sands, the laughter of children to a countryside where only jackals howl; to unearth the good soil under the rocks, to push back the desert, and remove the last swamps—these are among the tasks of the Jewish National Fund in its second fifty years.
**Weizmann, message, Jan. 19, 1951. Quoted in the ''N.Y. Times'', Jan. 20, 1951.
**[[Ḥaim weizmann]] in a message in January 19, 1951. Quoted in the ''New York Times'', Jan. 20, 1951.


*The chief merit of your leadership is that it seeks to restore or create the self-respect of the Jewish people. ... In Palestine the Jew is on horseback, head up, free from the care what others think of him.
*The chief merit of your leadership is that it seeks to restore or create the self-respect of the Jewish people. ... In Palestine the Jew is on horseback, head up, free from the care what others think of him.
**Josiah Wedgewood to Zionist Agency. Parliamentary Debate, June 9, 1942.
**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wedgwood-josiah-clement-first-barondeg Josiah] Wedgewood to Zionist Agency. Parliamentary Debate, June 9, 1942.


*If before I die there are half a million Jews in Palestine, I shall be content because I shall know that this "saving remnant" will survive. They, not the millions in the Diaspora, are what really matter.
*If before I die there are half a million Jews in Palestine, I shall be content because I shall know that this "saving remnant" will survive. They, not the millions in the Diaspora, are what really matter.
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*It was the Jewish genius that bestowed its radiance upon Palestine.
*It was the Jewish genius that bestowed its radiance upon Palestine.
**Barbara Whitehead. ''Atlantic Monthly'', March 1939, p. 318.
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-North-Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead]. ''Atlantic Monthly'', March 1939, “[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1939/03/an-appeal-to-sanity/653592/ An Appeal to Sanity]


*Each land has some unique property, but the Land of Israel is endowed with all of these, lacking none.
*Each land has some unique property, but the Land of Israel is endowed with all of these, lacking none.
**Simeon b. Yohai. ''Sifre'', #37, to ''Deut''. 11.10.
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shimon-bar-Yochai Simeon bar Yoḥai]. ''Sifre'', #37, to ''Deut''. 11.10.
 
*They caught and imprisoned the Tempter for three days, and then could not find a fresh egg in the whole Land of Israel. Said they, "If we kill him, the world will go under." So they put out his eyes, and let him go.
**Talmud: ''Yoma'', 69b.


*The [[Zionism|idea]] [Zionism] in itself is only natural, beautiful and just. Who can contest the rights of the Jews on Palestine? My God, historically it is your country!
*The [[Zionism|idea]] [Zionism] in itself is only natural, beautiful and just. Who can contest the rights of the Jews on Palestine? My God, historically it is your country!
**Yousef al-Khalidi, Mayor of Jerusalem early 1900s, Quoted in ''Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter'', p. 51.
**[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yussef-diya-uddin-al-khalidi Yousef al-Khalidi], Mayor of Jerusalem early 1900s, Quoted in ''Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter'', p. 51.


*To be buried in Palestine is like being buried under the altar.
*To be buried in Palestine is like being buried under the altar.
**Rabbi Anan ben David, ''Ketubot'' 111a. Translated in ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', [https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11867-palestine-holiness-of Holiness of Palestine].
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anan-ben-David Rabbi ‘Anan ben David], ''Ketubot'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.111a.9?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 111a:9]. Translated in ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', “[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11867-palestine-holiness-of Holiness of Palestine].”
 
*Palestine is no more of this workaday world. It is sacred poetry and tradition—it is dreamland.
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain Mark Twain], [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm ''The Innocents Abroad''].


* The Zionist aspiration includes not only the return to the Land of Israel, but also the return to the soil.
* The Zionist aspiration includes not only the return to the Land of Israel, but also the return to the soil.
** [[Menaḥem Ussishkin]] in “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10790 Between Shiny Gold and a Burning Sword]”
** [[Menaḥem Ussishkin]] in “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10790 Between Shiny Gold and a Burning Sword].”
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