At the Sixth Zionist Congress in Basel, he votes against the proposal to settle Jews in Uganda. 
In his speech, he states, “If the British Government and the British People are what I think they are, in the end they will make us a better proposal than this one.”

Establishes an office for a Jewish Institution of Higher Learning, which was designed to provide a solution for Jewish students who had been rejected from universities in Eastern Europe.

Participates in the Conference of Young Zionists and is one of the founders of the Democratic Party, a party whose goal was to promote the cause of taking practical action in Israel, and to conduct cultural activities.

Participates in the Second Zionist Congress in Basel.

Moves to Western Europe where he continues his academic studies. Receives a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Starts attending a Russian high school in the city of Pinsk and first becomes involved in Zionism by collecting money. At the age of eleven, he wrote a letter in Hebrew to his beloved teacher in Motol: “How esteemed, how exalted is the idea expressed by our brothers, the Children of Israel, of establishing a Hovevei Zion society, because by means of this we will be able to save our brethren who are abandoned and oppressed, who have been dispersed to the ends of the earth. The final word is that we are moving to Zion—let us go to Zion!”

18 Kislev 5635, November 27, 1874: Born in a small village called Motol, in Belarus, far from city life. Half of the village’s residents were Jewish, about 250 families. You can gain a sense of the size of the village from a saying that was popular among the village residents: “When a horse comes into town, its head is at one end of the town while its tail cleans the other end.”