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New school, new home: young olim begin the school year in Israel
NBN new olim, new school For six-year-old twins Miriam and Sophia Reinstein, starting school in Israel means starting…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Aliyah #Backtoschool #breakingnews #firstaliyah #Israel #NefeshB'Nefesh #NewSchool
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#FirstAliyah predates #Zionism.#Zionist Movement was born of reasons well-known, among which was virulent #antisemitism in #Europe & #Russia.
#Palestinian authorities, themselves under #Turkish #occupation, begged #Ottomans to prohibit #Russian #Jews from immigrating even before the arrival of Zionists — most of whom arrived only after #WWI.
Prior to #WWI, #Palestinian #grievance against Jews was one of #economic #competition, not #occupation or #oppression.
They never tolerated Jews