Episode 160 Herzl, Vienna, and the Menorah Miracle

The Zionist movement rallies around a blue and white flag adorned with the Star of David. 

The first Zionist Congress ignites a movement that would culminate in the Jewish return to the holy land and to Jerusalem. 

Why did the German kaiser want to visit Jerusalem, and what happened when he got there? 

Theodor Herzl's meeting with the kaiser seemed insignificant at the time, but the hindsight of history suggests the opposite.