Held in Lucerne, Switzerland, while the Nazi Party consolidates power and systematic and passionate antisemitism grows in Germany, the 19th Zionist Congress discusses rescuing German Jews and bringing them to Palestine. With the Labor faction still the majority, a coalition is established that allows Chaim Weizmann to return to his position as the president of the World Zionist Organization. David Ben-Gurion is elected to the Executive of the Jewish Agency during the Congress. The Revisionists have seceded from the WZO and do not attend the Congress. The Congress is held as the annual increase of Jewish immigration to Palestine reaches its zenith in 1933, 1934 and 1935.
