Jerusalem Program

The Jerusalem Program (Hebrew: תוכנית ירושלים) is the ideological platform of the Zionist Movement, and was initially adopted in 1951 at the 23rd World Zionist Congress to replace the Basel Program.

[1] The Jerusalem Program differed from the original Basel Program in that it shifted the goals of the Zionist Movement once the State of Israel was already established.

The 1951 Jerusalem Program stated that:[2] The task of Zionism is the consolidation of the State of Israel, the in gathering of exiles in Eretz Israel, and the fostering of the unity of the Jewish people.

The program of work of the World Zionist Organization is: The Jerusalem program was first revised by the 27th Zionist Congress in 1968, and was most recently revised at the meeting of the Zionist General Council in June 2004:[3] Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, brought about the establishment of the State of Israel, and views a Jewish, Zionist, democratic and secure State of Israel to be the expression of the common responsibility of the Jewish people for its continuity and future.

The foundations of Zionism are: