There are many similarities between Moses and Herzl.

Each grew up outside the mainstream Jewish establishment: Moses in Pharaoh’s home and Herzl in an assimilated environment. Each had an experience that caused him to dedicate his life to the Jewish people: for Moses when he intervenes when an Egyptian is beating a Hebrew and for Herzl when he witnesses the Dreyfus trial and its aftermath. Both had a plan to lead their people back to the Land of Israel. Both were initially rejected by their people. Both succeeded in leading their people back to Israel, but neither of them entered the land with them.

In 1901, the Argentinian delegates to the Fifth Zionist Congress gave Theodor Herzl a thick book of greetings from the Zionists of Buenos Aires.   

The book is a panegyric (I had to look it up, it means a published text in praise of someone or something). I asked Suzanne Berns, the Curator of the Theodor Herzl Archive at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, what........

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