Aliyah
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Aliyah refers to the immigration of Jewish people to Palestine and later Israel, a process that has been occurring for over a century. It matters because this migration has been fundamental to the establishment and development of Israel as a Jewish state.
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- Terminology
- Pre-modern ''aliyah''
- Biblical
- Antiquity
- Middle Ages
- 18th century
- 19th century
- Zionist ''aliyah'' (19th century)
- Ottoman Palestine (1881–1914)
- First Aliyah (1882–1903)
- Second Aliyah (1904–1914)
- British Palestine (1919–1948)
- Third Aliyah (1919–1923)
- Fourth Aliyah (1924–1929)
- Fifth Aliyah (1929–1939)
- Aliyah Bet: Illegal immigration (1933–1948)
- Early statehood (1948–1960)
- From Arab countries
- From Iran
- From Ethiopia
- From Romania
- From the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states
- From Latin America
- From France
- From North America
- Since the 1990s
- Paternity testing
- Holiday
- Statistics
- Recent trends
- Historic data
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.5|100 years of Aliyah (immigration) to Mandatory Palestine and [[Israel, between 1919 and 2020]]
Aliyah (, ; ) is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine region, where in the 20th century the State of Israel was established. Traditionally described as "the act of going up" (towards the Jewish holy city of Jerusalem), moving to the Land of Israel or "making aliyah" is one of the most basic tenets of Zionism. The opposite action – emigration by Jews from the Land of Israel – is referred to in the Hebrew language as yerida (). The Law of Return that was passed by the Israeli parliament in 1950 gives all diaspora Jews, as well as their children and grandchildren, the right to relocate to Israel and acquire Israeli citizenship on the basis of connecting to their Jewish identity.