1740 ⟶ Mass Immigration to Palestine
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🕊️ Mass Immigration to Palestine
🏘️ George Gawler Founds Association for Promoting Jewish Settlement in Palestine
George Gawler founds the Association for Promoting Jewish Settlement in Palestine⟶

ZionismJewish settlementPalestine19th centuryGeorge GawlerSettlement movement

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

ZionismAliyahImmigrationJewish CommunityOttoman EmpireSettlementEarly ZionistsJewish Diaspora

🇮🇱 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.⟶

AliyahZionismImmigrationPalestineOttoman EmpireRussiaAnti-SemitismJewish Diaspora


📝 Herbert Samuel's Memorandum on Palestine
Two months after the British declaration of war against the Ottomans, Herbert Samuel presents a detailed memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to the British Cabinet on the benefits of a British protectorate over Palestine to support Jewish immigration⟶

PalestineBritish ProtectorateHerbert SamuelZionismJewish ImmigrationWorld War IBritish CabinetPolitical Strategy


🏡 Palestine Jewish Colonization Association Established

ZionismColonizationEdmond James de RothschildPalestineJewish Settlement20th CenturyLand Acquisition
