Joseph Smith send an emissary to Israel to facilitate the return of the Jews

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Joseph Smith sent an emissary, Orson Hyde, to Israel to facilitate the return of the Jews.

Why are Mormons obsessed with Jews?

Peter Beinart
The Forward
October 23, 2017

https://forward.com/opinion/385721/why-are-mormons-obsessed-with-jews/

And Mormons don’t identify with only the biblical Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land; they identify with the modern Zionist story, too. In the 1830s, decades before Theodor Herzl’s birth, Mormon leader Joseph Smith instructed a disciple named Orson Hyde to “go to Jerusalem, the land of thy fathers, and be a watchman unto the house of Israel” and thus “facilitate the gathering together of that people.” Hyde made it to the Mount of Olives, where he asked God to “Let the land become abundantly fruitful when possessed by its rightful heirs.”