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Rabbi Samuel Mohilever (1824-1898), also Shmuel Mohilever, was a pioneer of Religious Zionism
Religious Zionism

Religious Zionism, or the Religious Zionist Movement is an ideology that combines Zionism and religious Judaism, basing Zionism on the principles of Torah, Talmud et al and authentic heritage....
 and one of the founders of the Hovevei Zion
Hovevei Zion

Hovevei Zion , also known as Hibbat Zion , refers to organizations that are considered the forerunners and foundations of the modern Zionist movement....
 movement.

Mohilever was born in Glebokie (now Hlybokaye
Hlybokaye

Hlybokaye is a town in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus, the capital of the Hlybokaye District . The first records about the settlement are dated 1514....
, Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
) and studied in the Volozhin yeshiva
Volozhin yeshiva

The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as Etz Chaim Yeshiva, was a yeshiva in the town of Volozhin , founded in 1803 by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, a student of the Vilna Gaon....
.

After the pogroms following the May Laws, he helped found the Hovevei Zion in Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
, and convinced Baron Edmond James de Rothschild
Edmond James de Rothschild

Baron Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild was a France member of the Rothschild family. A strong supporter of Zionism, his genorous donations lent significant support to the movement during its early years which helped lead to the establishment of the Israel....
 to financially support a settlement called Ekron (now Qiryat Ekron).

Mohilever was made the rabbi of Bialystok
Bialystok

Bialystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the second-densely populated city of the country. It is located near Poland's border with Belarus and is the capital of the Podlachia region....
 in 1883 and worked to promote Zionism by convincing Bialystok's Jews to move to Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
, then a struggling settlement.

In 1884, Mohilever was elected to the presidency of the Hovevei Zion conference, with Leon Pinsker
Leon Pinsker

Leo Pinsker was a physician, a Zionist pioneer and activist, and the founder and leader of the Hovevei Zion, also known as Hibbat Zion movement....
 serving as chairman.






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Rabbi Samuel Mohilever (1824-1898), also Shmuel Mohilever, was a pioneer of Religious Zionism
Religious Zionism

Religious Zionism, or the Religious Zionist Movement is an ideology that combines Zionism and religious Judaism, basing Zionism on the principles of Torah, Talmud et al and authentic heritage....
 and one of the founders of the Hovevei Zion
Hovevei Zion

Hovevei Zion , also known as Hibbat Zion , refers to organizations that are considered the forerunners and foundations of the modern Zionist movement....
 movement.

Mohilever was born in Glebokie (now Hlybokaye
Hlybokaye

Hlybokaye is a town in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus, the capital of the Hlybokaye District . The first records about the settlement are dated 1514....
, Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
) and studied in the Volozhin yeshiva
Volozhin yeshiva

The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as Etz Chaim Yeshiva, was a yeshiva in the town of Volozhin , founded in 1803 by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, a student of the Vilna Gaon....
.

After the pogroms following the May Laws, he helped found the Hovevei Zion in Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
, and convinced Baron Edmond James de Rothschild
Edmond James de Rothschild

Baron Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild was a France member of the Rothschild family. A strong supporter of Zionism, his genorous donations lent significant support to the movement during its early years which helped lead to the establishment of the Israel....
 to financially support a settlement called Ekron (now Qiryat Ekron).

Mohilever was made the rabbi of Bialystok
Bialystok

Bialystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the second-densely populated city of the country. It is located near Poland's border with Belarus and is the capital of the Podlachia region....
 in 1883 and worked to promote Zionism by convincing Bialystok's Jews to move to Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
, then a struggling settlement.

In 1884, Mohilever was elected to the presidency of the Hovevei Zion conference, with Leon Pinsker
Leon Pinsker

Leo Pinsker was a physician, a Zionist pioneer and activist, and the founder and leader of the Hovevei Zion, also known as Hibbat Zion movement....
 serving as chairman. Mohilever served as chairman in the 1887 and 1889 conferences. Many of his contributions were of a religious nature - Mohilever insured that Jewish farming in Palestine complied with Jewish laws and tradition by setting up a rabbinical committee to oversee it.

In 1893 a series of differences with the movement's main office in Odessa led to decision that another centre be established under Mohilever's leadership. The new office, named Mizrahi, (A Hebrew abbreviation of merkaz ruhani – "spiritual centre") was tasked with Zionist propaganda and cultural work among orthodox Jews.

In 1897 Mohilever sent a message to the First Zionist Congress
First Zionist Congress

The First Zionist Congress is the name given to the congress held in Basel, Switzerland, from August 29 to August 31 1897. It was the first congress of the Zionist Organization ....
: 'It is essential', he wrote, 'that the Congress unite all "Sons of Zion" who are true to our cause to work in complete harmony and fraternity, even if there be among them differences of opinion regarding religion.'

When in 1901 Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines
Yitzchak Yaacov Reines

Yitzchak Yaacov Reines ???? ???? ????? , was a Lithuanian Jews Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement....
 and other of Mohilever's disciples re-established the organization, they did so with the same stance, spirit and name. Mohilever had successfully inspired the amalgamation of traditional Jewish orthodoxy with practical Zionism.

The kibbutz
Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
 Gan Shmuel was named after Mohilever.