Born into a Jewish family next door to a Budapest Synagogue on May 2, 1860, little Theodor Herzl's early life would make one guess he would grow up to be modern Israel's founding father. After losing his beloved sister to typhus, young Theodor moved with his family to Vienna and began to study law. During law school, he first experienced anti-Semitism. And after a very brief legal career, he instead focused on careers in journalism and playwriting. While working0 on a newspaper in Paris, Theodore's beat coincided with the Dryfus Affair, an anti-semitic scandal that just about tore France apart. While it seems Herzl himself felt the Jewish military officer at the center of the scandal was guilty, the anti-semitism he witnessed turned him into a Zionist, particularly mobs in the Parisian streets shouting, "Death to the Jews!"  The anti-semitism that Herzl witnessed made him realize something when it came to hatred of his people. It could not be stopped, but could be combated by establishing a Jewish State. In 1896, he published the book Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews), which made the case for the Jewish people to leave Europe and return to the Holyland, the land God had promised them. Herzl's ideas were at once adopted by Jewish people arould the world. They were entranced by Herzl's conclusion:  Therefore I believe that a wonderous generation of Jews will spring into existence. The Macabeans will rise again. Let me repeat once more my opening words:  The Jews who wish for a State will have it. We shall live as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes. The next year found Herzl doing even more for his people. He founded Die Welt, a Zionist newspaper, and also planned the first Zionist Congress, or which he was president until his death. This allowed him to meet with world leaders and businessmen to further his Zionist dream. In 1898, Theodor Herzl visited the Holy Land. Then still Ottoman-controlled Palestine, it became home to the "local office" of Herzl's World Zionist Organizations. For the remaining years of his life, Herzl would advocate for the return of the Jewish people to the Holyland. He died on July 3, 1904, in Austria, his will stating, "I wish to be buried in the vault next to my father, and to lie there till the Jewish people take my remains to Israel."