To yoven Immigration of jews to Israel
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Submitted by Faisal (India), May 24, 2006 at 08:50

Between 1882 and 1903, approximately 35,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, then a province of the Ottoman Empire.

Between 1904 and 1914, 40,000 Jews immigrated mainly from Russia to Palestine following pogroms and outbreaks of anti-semitism in that country.

Between 1919 and 1923, 40,000 Jews, mainly from Eastern Europe arrived in the wake of: The First World War; the British conquest of Palestine

Between 1924 and 1929, 82,000 Jews arrived, many as a result of anti-semitism in Poland and Hungary.

Between 1929 and 1939, with the rise of Nazism in Germany, a new wave of 250,000 immigrants arrived, the majority of these, 174,000, arrived between 1933-1936, after which increasing restrictions on immigration by the British made immigration clandestine and illegal

In the course of Operation Magic Carpet (1949-1950), the entire community of Yemenite Jews (about 49,000) emigrated to Israel.In three and a half years, the Jewish population of Israel had doubled, inflated by nearly 700,000 immigrants, which was one of the causes of the austerity.

114,000 Jews came from Iraq in 1951 in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.

Over 30,000 Iranian Jews immigrated to Israel following the Islamic Revolution

The massive airlift known as Operation Moses began to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel on November 18 1985 and ended on January 5. During those six weeks, some 6,500-8,000 Ethiopian Jews were flown from Sudan to Israel.

In 1991, Operation Solomon was launched to rescue the Beta Israel Jews of Ethiopia. In one day, May 24, 34 aircraft landed at Addis Ababa and brought 14,325 Jews from Ethiopia to Israel.

Since the mid 1990s, there has been a steady stream of South African Jews, American Jews, and French Jews who have either made aliyah, or purchased property in Israel for potential future immigration. Specifically, many French Jews have purchased homes in Israel as insurance due to the rising rate of anti-Semitism in France in recent years.

More than 10,000 Jews from Argentina immigrated to Israel since 2000, joining the thousands of previous olim already there

In the period 2000–2005, 11,148 Jews made Aliyah from France. Including a 35-year high in 2005, with 3,300 immigrants.

There are approximately 110,000 North American immigrants in Israel.

http://www.answers.com/topic/aliyah..... May be more will come if u invade syria .

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