Charles Henry Churchill (“Churchill Bey",)
British army officer and diplomat. He was a British consul in Ottoman Syria and proposed one of the first political plans for Zionism and the creation of an Israeli state in the region of Ottoman Palestine
Montefiore met Churchill in Malta in November 1840 when Churchill asked if he could serve as a courier to Damascus Churchill arrived in February 1841 and the head of the Jewish community Raphael Farhi held a reception in his honor on March 1
Churchill gave his first speech supporting Jewry to rousing applauds
“May this happy meeting be looked upon as a forecast of such a connection and alliance between the English and the Jewish nation as shall be honourable and advantageous to both May the hour of Israel’s deliverance be at hand May the approximation of Western civilization to the interesting land be the dawn of her regeneration and of her political existence may the Jewish nation once more claim her rank among the powers of the world
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