Much as we conceive of Zionism as a modern Jewish nationalist movement, it likely wouldn't have succeeded without the weight of Jewish tradition behind it.

'Behold… a holy man of God, who passes by us regularly. Let us make a small walled upper chamber, and place there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp; and it will be that when he comes to us, he will turn into there.'

According to tradition, Qasr El Yehud on the Jordan River is the exact spot where Joshua and the Children of Israel entered the holy land.