[2] As is usual for friendly societies, its members had to pay a fee of one shekel and received social and medical support.
In addition to that, Jewish and "non-Jewish honorary members"[2] alike had to profess support for the Zionist movement.
[1] After a visit by Theodor Herzl in 1896, Herbert Bentwich organized a trip to Palestine which he called the "Maccabaean Pilgrimage".
According to Maja Gildin Zuckerman, a scholar of modern Jewish cultural history, this was a turning point after which the Maccabaeans' Zionism took a political form rather than religious.
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