When the Jewish State was Almost in Uganda

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Upon witnessing the danger and suffering Jews were experiencing from rampant antisemitism, Theodor Herzl proposed a temporary safe haven in Uganda. However, a Jewish homeland in East Africa was heavily opposed by the Zionist Congress. 

After much debate, the Seventh Zionist Congress decided against executing the Uganda Plan and Herzl focused his efforts on aiding the future establishment of a Jewish state elsewhere. 

Fifty years later, Israel was established, keeping the Jewish State in a place rich with Jewish history, rather than merely in a place of physical safety.

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