There was good reason for calling Herzl "the visionary of the Jewish State" for in the autumn of 1947, 50 years after having written this, the UN discussed the possibility of establishing a Jewish state in Eretz Israel; a few months later the Jewish state - Israel - rose. Herzl's Zionist plan, and that of the leaders that came after him, made the road to the establishment of Israel in May 1948 possible.