The '''Basel Program''' was the first [[manifesto]] of the [[Zionism|Zionist movement]], drafted between 27-30 August 1897 and adopted unanimously at the [[First Zionist Congress]] in [[Basel|Basel (Basle)]], [[Switzerland]] on 30 August 1897.
It was drafted by a seven-man committee appointedoriginally elected on FridaySunday 2729 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 Thename="EJ2007">{{citation|last1=Skolnik|first1=Fred|last2=Berenbaum|first2=Michael|title=Encyclopaedia committeeJudaica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vKoUAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Macmillan wasReference USA|isbn=978-0-02-865931-2|page=202}}</ref> headedtogether bywith [[Hermann Schapira]] and [[Max NordauBodenheimer]] who were added to the committee on the basis of them having both drafted previous similar programs.<ref{{sfn|Jubilee namePublication|1947|p="Epstein2016"/>73}}
