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Presidente israelense vai visitar a Basileia para o jubileu sionista
The festivities will take place on August 28-29 in the Stadtcasino and at the Congress Center Basel, the president of the cantonal government said on Wednesday. More than 1,000 Jews from around the world will travel to the city in northern Switzerland. Security costs will total CHF5.7 million ($5.85 million).
The head of Basel police said all planned events in the city would go ahead as planned, including a public viewing on a central square as part of a federal wrestling festival.
The choice of Basel is far from a coincidence. Basel is considered the birthplace of the Jewish State of Israel, said Ralph Lewin, president of the Swiss Federation of Israeli Communities (SIG). At the end of August 1897, on the initiative of Theodor Herzl, the First Zionist Congress took place in the Stadtcasino's music hall.
“At Basel I founded the Jewish State,” Herzl said the following week.“If I said this out loud today, l would be greeted by universal laughter. In five years perhaps, and certainly in 50 years, everyone will perceive it.”
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