Word: aliyah
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...Jewish state in 1948, 1.6 million Jews have settled in the country, and Jerusalem encourages others to come by offering generous financial and moral support. Last week, speaking in New York to the annual convention of the Labor Zionist Alliance, former Premier Golda Meir asked for the aliyah (immigration) of 2 million Jews to Israel in the next two years. "It is the one answer the Arabs understand," she said, referring to the constant threat of Arab-Israeli hostilities...
Kahane's speech was sponsored by the Israel Aliyah Center, the Zionist Organization of America, and MIT Hillel as part of an effort to encourage American Jewish immigration to Israel...
...First Aliyah (wave of immigration) of Jews from Russia and East Europe to Palestine begins...
...Second Aliyah increases Jewish population...
...fortified city in the days of Joshua; its motto is taken from the prophet Jeremiah: "Thy children shall come again to their own border." At the site of this ancient citadel, giant jetliners today disgorge joyous refugees from the Soviet Union, the source of the latest aliyah. Horse-drawn carts rattle through the streets of nearby Ramla, while Phantom and Skyhawk jets scream overhead. Beneath the Qumran caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, picnickers romp along the shores of the Dead Sea. In Rehovoth, a sleepy little town founded by Polish Jews in 1890, the mysteries of life...