Religious Zionism

Religious Zionism is a Jewish religious and political movement that supports Zionism and treats Jewish settlement and sovereignty in the Land of Israel as religiously significant.

Mizrachi: A religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 to represent Orthodox Jews within the Zionist movement. It gave religious Zionists an organized presence in the early Zionist movement.
Religious Zionist theology: A body of Jewish religious thought that connects Zionism and Jewish national revival with religious meaning. It provides the theological framework for treating national restoration as more than political change.
Zvi Yehuda Kook: An Israeli rabbi and son of Abraham Isaac Kook who became a prominent teacher of religious Zionism. His students helped make settlement central to a powerful post-1967 current.
National Religious Party: An Israeli political party representing religious Zionism, active from 1956 until its 2008 merger into the Jewish Home. It was the movement's principal parliamentary vehicle for decades.
Haredi Judaism: A range of Orthodox Jewish communities emphasizing strict religious observance and rabbinic authority, often wary of modern secularism. Many Haredi traditions reject the religious meaning religious Zionists assign to the modern state.
Abraham Isaac Kook: A leading rabbi and Jewish thinker who interpreted secular Zionist activity as part of a divine process. His theology supplied a lasting religious interpretation of secular Jewish settlement.
Atchalta de-geulah: A rabbinic phrase meaning the beginning of redemption, applied by some thinkers to modern Jewish return to the Land of Israel. It names the idea that contemporary national events can inaugurate redemption.
Haim-Moshe Shapira: An Israeli religious Zionist politician who led the National Religious Party and served in several governments. He represents the movement's long-standing participation in Israeli parliamentary politics.
Gush Emunim: An Israeli religious Zionist settlement movement founded in 1974 that promoted Jewish settlement in the territories captured in 1967. It turned religious-national claims into an organized settlement campaign.
Satmar: A Hasidic Jewish movement whose influential teachings oppose Zionism before the coming of the Messiah. Its anti-Zionist theology directly contests religious Zionist readings of Jewish sovereignty.

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