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'''General Zionism (or Liberal Zionism)''' was initially the dominant trend within the Zionist movement from the First Zionist Congress in 1897 until after the First World War. General Zionists identified with the liberal European middle class to which many Zionist leaders such as Herzl and Chaim Weizmann aspired. Liberal Zionism, although not associated with any single party in modern Israel, remains a strong trend in Israeli politics advocating free market principles, democracy and adherence to human rights for their citizens. Their political arm was one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud. Kadima, the main centrist party during the 2000s that split from Likud and is now defunct, however, did identify with many of the fundamental policies of Liberal Zionist ideology, advocating among other things the need for Palestinian statehood in order to form a more democratic society in Israel, affirming the free market. In 2013, Ari Shavit suggested that the success of the then-new Yesh Atid party (representing secular, middle-class interests) embodied the success of "the new General Zionists."

 

Evangelicalism, also known as "Born-again Christianity" is a denomination of Christianity within Protestantism. Due to dispensationalist beliefs within Evangelicalism philosophy, Evangelicalism is by default very Zionist and Philosemitic. The belief that Jewish and Christian collaboration is essential for their beliefs. Evangelicalism, or Christian Zionism is general, was popularized with The Scofield Reference Bible in 1909