David Wolffsohn
David Wolffsohn is the second president of the Congrès Zionist.
He is one of closest to Theodore Herzl. He is born in Lithuania in 1856 and emigrates in Germany. Wolffsohn has the appearance of a pioneer near the Lovers of Sion. With the publication of the book of Hertzl Der Judenstaat , Wolffsohn leaves for Vienna and becomes the admiror and the friend nearest to the visionary of the political Zionism.
Until 1904, it belongs to the restricted cabinet of the Conseil of the worker Zionist. It accompanies Herzl at the time of its voyage in Palestine. Wolffsohn is also one of the initiators to the Fonds for the Jewish establishment, of which he becomes the first president. After the disappearance of Herzl, he is elected in 1905 president of the Congrès Zionist, from where he takes care mainly of the unit of the political clouts present. Many its visits to the world leaders are the occasion for him to explain the Sionisme, and to present the problems to which are confronted the Juif S. It resigns in 1911.
Wolffsohn dies in 1914, and its body, in 1952 is transferred onto the Mont Herzl, with Jerusalem. The building David Wolffsohn , inaugurated in 1930 on the Mount Scopus and the kibbutz Nir-David (Such-Amal) , at the entry of the valley of Beït-Shéan bear its name today.
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