the Herculean tasks envisioned for it, Herzl estimated that the company's capital should be about a thousand million marks (about £50,000,000 or $200,000,000). In fact, the Zionist Movement – both in Herzl's time and later – could not come anywhere close to such gigantic figures. Under Herzl's direction there was created a few years later the Jewish Colonial Trust – indeed located in London and incorporated under British law, but with the modest capital of 250,000 Pounds, about half of one percent of the envisioned Jewish Company. Even so, the "Colonial Trust" and its affiliate, the Anglo Palestine Company had a key role in the actual implementation of the Zionist Project, and eventually became Bank Leumi, one of Israel's main banks. References External links The Jewish State, A Century Later by Alan Dowty (1998) The Jewish State – Theodor Herzl's Program for Zionism German text on Wikisource A reading in English of The Jewish State 1896 non-fiction books Books about Zionism Political books Jewish nationalism 1896 in Judaism Pamphlets Theodor Herzl