This book is not an exhaustive study of the history of Zionism and does not claim to be such a role. A reader interested in the development of the Zionist movement, as well as the history of the Jewish settlement of Eretz Israel and the diplomatic struggle that led to the revival of the state, today is forced to turn to an increasing number of works in Hebrew and other languages, in which these topics are covered from different historical and methodological points of view. The purpose of this book is much narrower: to outline some aspects of the Zionist idea that have found expression in the thoughts of several of its most significant representatives of the 19th and 20th centuries, and with their help to consider the specifics of the appearance of the history of modern Zionism in the arena.