POL345Y1 Lecture Notes - Jewish National Fund, Sykes–Picot Agreement, Yishuv
Document Summary
In 1800s, the were 6000 jews in four cities saled, tiberias, hebron and jerusalem due to the protection that the ottoman empire offered to europeans in the 19th century, the amount of jews palestine rose to. 17,000 by 1856 philanthropists began to buy land for jewish use . The first aaliyah between 1882 and 1891 raised jewish population in. Palestine in 50,000 during the second aaliyah a further 30000 jews came to palestine, including ben-gurion. The foundations for the modern state of israel were laid before the first world war many more towns and settlements began to spring up. Zionism"s goal was the ingathering of the exiles and land redemption . In 1901, the jewish national fund was established to purchase land from arabs the first kibbutz was created in deganya in 1901 the city of tel-aviv was created in the same year.
