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==Drafting committee==

It was drafted by a committee originally elected on Sunday 29 August 1897{{sfn|Jubilee Publication|1947|p=73}} comprising [[Max Nordau]] (heading the committee),<ref name="Epstein2016"/> [[Nathan Birnbaum]], [[Alexander Mintz]], [[Siegmund Rosenberg]], [[:de: Saul Raphael Landau |Saul Rafael Landau]],<ref name="Epstein2016">{{citation|last=Epstein|first=Lawrence J.|title=The Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLxnCgAAQBAJ|date=14 January 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4422-5467-1}}</ref><ref name="EJ2007">{{citation|last1=Skolnik|first1=Fred|last2=Berenbaum|first2=Michael|title=Encyclopaedia Judaica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vKoUAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Macmillan Reference USA|isbn=978-0-02-865931-2|page=202}}</ref> together with [[Hermann Schapira]] and [[Max Bodenheimer]] who were added to the committee on the basis of them having both drafted previous similar programs.{{sfn|Jubilee Publication|1947|p=73}}

The seven-man committee prepared the Program over three drafting meetings.{{sfn|Jubilee Publication|1947|p=73}}

==The Program==