The Lord Herzl, the Founder of Modern Zionism

The Lord Herzl was a, many of you might know this, he was born in the latter part of the 1800s. He died at 44 and actually visited Israel once, but never got to see the formation of the nation. A lot of people had tried to promote Zionism at that time, but it was Herzl who really enabled it to catch on. Do you know that Herzl's goal was to keep the Jews alive?