1948 ⟶ Holocaust Survivors and Yemenite Jews Migrate to Israel

Almost 250,000 Holocaust survivors make their way to Israel....
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🇮🇱 The First Aliyah: Jewish Immigration to Palestine

The First Aliyah, major wave (estimated at 25,000–35,000) of Jewish immigration to Ottoman Palestine.⟶
The First Aliyah: Jewish Immigration to Palestine (1882)
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🇮🇱 Second Aliyah: Jewish Immigration to Palestine

The Second Aliyah occurs. Approximately 40,000 Jews immigrated into Ottoman Palestine, mostly from Russia. The prime cause for the aliyah was mounting anti-Semitism in Russia and pogroms in the Pale of Settlement. Nearly half of these immigrants left Palestine by the time World War I started.⟶
Second Aliyah: Jewish Immigration to Palestine (1904)
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🚢 The Third Aliyah

The Third Aliyah was triggered by the October Revolution in Russia, the ensuing pogroms there and in Poland and Hungary, the British conquest of Palestine and the Balfour Declaration. Approximately 40,000 Jews arrived in Palestine during this time.⟶
The Third Aliyah (1920)
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🇮🇱 Fifth Aliyah to Palestine

The Fifth Aliyah was primarily a result of the Nazi accession to power in Germany (1933) and later throughout Europe. Persecution and the Jews' worsening situation caused immigration from Germany to increase and from Eastern Europe to continue. Nearly 250,000 Jews arrived in British Mandatory Palestine during the Fifth Aliyah (20,000 of them left later). From this time on, the practice of "numbering" the waves of immigration was discontinued.⟶
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✈️ Holocaust Survivors and Yemenite Jews Migrate to Israel

Almost 250,000 Holocaust survivors make their way to Israel. "Operation Magic Carpet" brings thousands of Yemenite Jews to Israel.⟶
Holocaust Survivors and Yemenite Jews Migrate to Israel (1948)
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✈️ Operation Solomon: Airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel

Operation Solomon: Rescue of the remainder of Ethiopian Jewry in a twenty-four-hour airlift.⟶
Operation Solomon: Airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel (1991)
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