Word: aliya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figures, which seem to fly in the face of Israel's very purpose. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich somewhat hyperbolically described emigration last December as "the most important national problem." The Zionist goal of "ingathering of the exiles" was for decades complemented by the exiles' dream of aliya -"going up" to the homeland. The opposite phenomenon of yerida - "going down" to the outside