"The Al-Arish Plan"

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The Al-Arish program is a diplomatic program that was first raised by Herzl in January 1903, after the attempts to obtain a charter from Ottoman rule to Jewish settlement in the United States. The initiative first emerged from British officials in the face of British control in Egypt. The program was a Jewish settlement in the territory of English control near the Land of Israel – Cyprus or the Sinai Peninsula, in light of the non-violent proximity. Herzl also called Sinai "Egyptian Palestine".

The origin of the program is in the Egyptian Al-Arish city on the Sinai Peninsula to the Mediterranean coast.

Wadi al-Arish’s geographical proximity to the borders of the Land of Israel was a decisive reason for his efforts to convince his members of the Zionist Executive Committee, that it is best to settle for a temporary replacement until the conditions for Jarrett on the Land of Israel were restricted. To test the settlement option in Sinai was sent by a survey delegation from the Zionist Histadrut, which included: (a) Leopold Kesler, a mining engineer – the head of the delegation (b) Albert Goldsmith, former Colonel of the English Army and served as Chief Executive Officer of the Baron Hirsch colonies in Argentina; and was a representative of the Chief of the Civil Engineers (D) who served as an architect of the Egyptian government. Some of the participants were only in some of the tours.

In the return of the members of the delegation to Cairo, on 26 March 1903, Herzl was greeted and had already met with Lord Cromer and Egyptian Foreign Minister Boutros Raleigh.

Herzl hoped to settle in Al-Arish there a few tens of thousands of Jews, in a short time, but the delegation made it clear that the explicit commitments of the involved parties (the British government and the Egyptian government) were required for the settlement issue and to supply vast amounts of water to landwashing from the salt that had been met, in order to train it for agricultural processing, as a source of livelihood for settlers, which would take several years. After a few days of heated meetings and debates, they received a message from William Wilcox, which was responsible for the water in Egypt, which is impossible to assign water from Nile to the Al-Arish Land Training and received the backing of Lord Cromer. In fact, the Al-Arish program was canceled.

External links
Zvi Ilan, Herzl invites Basel Sheikh from the Negev to discuss a Jewish Bedouin, anti-Semitic alliance, Issue No. 12, March 1977. [Inactive link]
Zvi Ilan, Al-Arish program, on the site of Isaac Ben-Sirvi,
Dr. Hillel's diary is beautiful, the member of the delegation - HTTPSWabenyehuda.org/read/34702#ch855 Episode: in the Al-Arish Hypothesis.

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