Judah Alkalai, a Sephardic rabbi in Zemun…

Judah Alkalai, a Sephardic rabbi in Zemun in the Austrian Empire's Military Frontier (in present day Serbia), finally leaves his congregation in 1871 and goes to Palestine, where he creates a new organization, a society for settlement.

Although it will fail, Alkalai's writings—he is an inveterate pamphleteer—do have some effect, as had one book, his first in Hebrew, Goral Ladonai (A Lot for the Lord, 1857). (These and his personal migration will help pave the way for the coming Zionism of Theodor Herzl and others.)