[1] Established in 1940 it gathers 29 Jewish Zionist institutions, serving as the community's political representative in official events and conducts all contact with authorities.

[6] In the first decades of the 20th century, Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe began to arrive in Uruguay to escape pogroms and poverty.

[7] A large part of them settled in the Villa Muñoz neighborhood of Montevideo, where synagogues and schools were established, turning the area into the nucleus of the Uruguayan Jewish community.

[10] Due to the rise of Nazism in Europe, Uruguayan Jews grouped together to create an organization that would bring together and politically represent the entire community.

[11] On December 11, 1940, with the union of all the Jewish communities that had existed since previous years, the Central Israelite Committee of Uruguay was created.