Ariel Sophia Bardi

What Theodor Herzl’s Zionist-Utopian Novel Says About Israel Today

Herzl is still considered one of Israel’s founding fathers. But his novel “Altneuland” — unlike his 1896 manifesto — is seldom remembered. There might be a reason for that. Read the utopian novel and you’ll see how far Herzl’s vividly imagined, Jewish-led cooperative in Palestine diverges from the Israel of today.