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Yishuv (literally "settlement") or Ha-Yishuv (the Yishuv, , or the full term ????? ?????? ???? ????? Hayishuv Hayehudi b'Eretz Yisrael ("The Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel") is the term used in Hebrew referring to the body of Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish residents in the Holy Land
Holy Land

The Holy Land , generally refers to the geographical region of the Levant called Land of Canaan or Land of Israel in the Bible, and constitutes the Promised land....
 before the establishment of the State of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. The residents and new settlers were referred to collectively as "the Yishuv" or "Ha-Yishuv." The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living in Eretz Yisrael, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were about 700,000 Jews there, and is used in Hebrew even nowadays to denote the Pre-State Jewish residents in the Holy Land.

A distinction is sometimes drawn between the Old Yishuv and the New Yishuv.

The Old Yishuv
Old Yishuv

The Old Yishuv refers to the Jewish community that lived in Eretz Yisrael, from the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE to the First Aliyah in 1881, prior to the onset of Zionism....
 refers to all the Jews living there before the aliyah
Aliyah

Aliyah refers to Jewish immigration to Greater Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is referred to as Yerida ....
 of 1882 by the Zionist movement.






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Yishuv (literally "settlement") or Ha-Yishuv (the Yishuv, , or the full term ????? ?????? ???? ????? Hayishuv Hayehudi b'Eretz Yisrael ("The Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel") is the term used in Hebrew referring to the body of Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish residents in the Holy Land
Holy Land

The Holy Land , generally refers to the geographical region of the Levant called Land of Canaan or Land of Israel in the Bible, and constitutes the Promised land....
 before the establishment of the State of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. The residents and new settlers were referred to collectively as "the Yishuv" or "Ha-Yishuv." The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living in Eretz Yisrael, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were about 700,000 Jews there, and is used in Hebrew even nowadays to denote the Pre-State Jewish residents in the Holy Land.

A distinction is sometimes drawn between the Old Yishuv and the New Yishuv.

The Old Yishuv
Old Yishuv

The Old Yishuv refers to the Jewish community that lived in Eretz Yisrael, from the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE to the First Aliyah in 1881, prior to the onset of Zionism....
 refers to all the Jews living there before the aliyah
Aliyah

Aliyah refers to Jewish immigration to Greater Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is referred to as Yerida ....
 of 1882 by the Zionist movement. The Old Yishuv residents were religious Jews living mainly in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Safed
Safed

Safed is a city in the North District of Israel of Israel and a center for Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism. At an elevation of 800 meters above sea level, Safed is the highest city in the Galilee....
, Tiberias
Tiberias

Tiberias is a town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Lower Galilee, Israel. It was named in honour of the emperor Tiberius....
 and Hebron
Hebron

Hebron is the largest city in the West Bank, located in the south, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 166,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Israelis....
. Smaller communities were in Jaffa
Jaffa

File:Jaffa StPeter church.jpgJaffa is an ancient port city believed to be one of the oldest in the world.Jaffa is located south of Tel Aviv, Israel on the Mediterranean Sea....
, Haifa
Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in North District Israel, and the List of Israeli cities in the country, with a population of over 264,900. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs....
, Peki'in
Peki'in

Peki'in or Buqei'a , is a locality, Local council in the North District of Israel located eight kilometres east of Ma'alot-Tarshiha in the Upper Galilee....
, Acre
Acre

The acre is a Units of measurement of area in a number of different systems, including the Imperial unit#Measures of area and United States customary units#Units of area systems....
, Nablus
Nablus

Nablus is a Palestinian people city in the northern West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 134,000. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center....
, Shfaram and until 1779 also in Gaza
Gaza

Gaza is a Palestinian people city in the Gaza Strip, approximately southwest of Jerusalem, with a population of 410,000, making it the largest city under the control of the Palestinian National Authority....
. A large part of the Old Yishuv concentrated their time in Torah
Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
 studies and lived off Ma'amodot (stipends), received by donations from the Jews in the Diaspora
Diaspora

The term diaspora refers to the movement of any population sharing common ethnicity identity who were either forced to leave or voluntarily left their Settler territory, and became residents in areas often far removed from the former....
.

The New Yishuv refers to those who built homes outside the Old City
Old City

Old City may refer to:...
 walls of Jerusalem in the 1860s, and to the establishment of Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
 and the First Aliyah
First Aliyah

The First Aliyah was the first modern widespread wave of Zionism aliyah. Jews who migrated to Palestine in this wave came mostly from Eastern Europe and from Yemen....
 of 1882, followed by the founding of settlements until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

See also

  • History of Israel
    History of Israel

    The State of Israel was Declaration of Independence in 1948 after nearly two thousand years of Jewish diaspora, and after 55 years of efforts to create a Jewish homeland ....
  • Mizrahi Jews
    Mizrahi Jews

    Mizrahi Jews or Mizrahim, , also referred to as Adot HaMizrach are Jews descended from the Jewish communities of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
  • Zionism
    Zionism

    Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
  • Jewish exodus from Arab lands
    Jewish exodus from Arab lands

    The Jewish exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century expulsion or mass departure of Jews, primarily of Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews background, from Arab and Islamic countries....