Israel is a small country which is recognized by 163 countries while there are still 36 countries that do not accept its existence. Its population is 9.73 million. Israel was created by those Jews who once migrated to Palestine as refugees in the early 19th. Century. The migrant Jews acquired land in Palestine and proclaimed to have a country of their own. In a journey from Balfour Declaration that announced a new State of Israel to the now Hamas Israel war, the strength of Jewish diaspora remains pivotal.

Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow, Jewish leaders in London were the ones who pushed the British Government for passing a declaration for establishing a ‘Jewish homeland’ in Palestine. Chaim Weizmann helped the British in their munition industry during the World War 1. Though he was a chemist but he became more popular for his political activism. At the age of 11, he wrote a letter to his teacher that Jews must return to Zion (a synonym for Jerusalem). Nahum Sokolow was a national of Poland, through his hard work he became a renowned journalist who could speak Russian, Spanish, German, French English, Hebrew and Yiddish. He is the one who coined the name Tel Aviv. He also secured declarations in favour of a Jewish State from Poland, France, Italy and Germany.In the US, the Jewish diaspora has been exerting its political role since decades. American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is the most influential Israeli lobby group in the US. On the website of AIPAC, its written that it ‘supports those who........

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