"The Hebrew state is free immigration"

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THE EXPRESSION OF A HEBREW STATE OF FREE IMMIGRATION IS A WELL-KNOWN SLOGAN, USED BY THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL IN THE 1940S, AS PART OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE BRITISH AND THE WHITE BOOK POLICY.

THIS SLOGAN EXPRESSED THE TWO VALUES UNDERLYING THE ZIONIST VISION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE AGAINST THE BRITISH MANDATE RULE: A HEBREW STATE, AND A FREE RISE OF THE JEWS OF THE WORLD TO ISRAEL.

ON THE FACE OF THE SLOGAN EXPRESSES A SIMPLE DESIRE – THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL WANTS TO ACHIEVE A STATE IN ORDER TO HAVE A FREE RISE TO ISRAEL. IN FACT, THINGS ARE MORE COMPLEX, WHEN BOTH PARTS OF THE PASSWORD CHANGE OVER TIME THEIR ORDER OF IMPORTANCE AND PURPOSE.

AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MANDATE PERIOD AND FOR A LONG PERIOD, AS LONG AS THE RESTRICTIONS ON IMMIGRATION WERE NOT SIGNIFICANT, THE JEWISH COMMUNITY UNDERSTOOD THAT THE RISE TO ISRAEL AND THE FORMATION OF A JEWISH MAJORITY IN ITS WAKE, WERE THE CONDITION OF THE STATE. FIRST, IMMIGRATION AND THEN COUNTRY. WITHOUT A JEWISH MAJORITY IN ISRAEL, THERE IS NO RIGHT TO DEMAND A JEWISH STATE, AND THERE IS NO CHANCE THAT IT WILL RISE. THE VALUE THAT WAS EMPHASIZED WAS RELATED TO THE NEEDS OF THE LAND AND ZIONISM, AND LESS IN THE NEEDS OF JEWS IN THE DIASPORA. OVER TIME, WHEN THE RESTRICTIONS ON IMMIGRATION HAVE BEEN STRENGTHENED, ON THE ONE HAND, AND THE NEED TO SAVE JEWS DUE TO THE RETURN OF EUROPE IS A MAN BUT HAS NOT BEEN ANSWERED, ON THE OTHER HAND, THE CREATORS HAVE BECOME. THE DEMAND FOCUSED ON GRANTING PERMISSION TO ESTABLISH A HEBREW STATE IN ORDER TO ALLOW FREE IMMIGRATION TO THIS COUNTRY. THE VALUE THAT WAS HIGHLIGHTED AT THE TIME WAS THE RESCUE OF THE JEWS AND THE JEWISH NEEDS OF EXILE IN A SAFE HAVEN.

HISTORICAL REVIEW

THE RISE TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE NEW AGE, UNTIL THE END OF THE MANDATE PERIOD.
IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES THERE WERE WAVES OF IMMIGRATION TO ISRAEL, IN WHICH THEY TOOK PART BOTH INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZED GROUPS. SOME OF THE IMMIGRANTS CAME DUE TO ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS IN THE DIASPORA, SOME DUE TO THE RISE OF ANTI-SEMITISM, PERSECUTION AND POGROMS, AND SOME OF THEM FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS – HISTORY. WITH THE RISE OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, JEWS OF NATIONAL RECOGNITION BEGAN TO RISE TO ISRAEL, WHO WANTED TO LIVE IN A WORKING LIFE.

IT IS ACCEPTED TO DIVIDE THE WAVES OF IMMIGRATION INTO ISRAEL, FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO 1939, TO FIVE GROUPS:

THE FIRST INCREASE BEGAN IN 1881 - THE U.S., AS PART OF WHICH APPROXIMATELY 29,000 IMMIGRANTS ARRIVED IN THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING MANY YEMENITES WHO ARRIVED IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE RISE OF THE "ELYA IN TAMAR". THE END OF THIS INCREASE WAS IN 1904.

THE SECOND INCREASE WAS REVISED TO THE YEARS 1904-1914, IN WHICH APPROXIMATELY 35,000 IMMIGRANTS ARRIVED. MOST OF THEM ARE FROM EASTERN EUROPE AND ARE FROM YEMEN.

THE THIRD INCREASE BEGAN WITH THE END OF WORLD WAR I, IN 1919, AND ENDED IN 1924, WITH THE END OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AFTER THE FIRST NEGOTIATIONS. AS PART OF IT, 50,958 IMMIGRANTS ARRIVED, MOST OF THEM FROM EUROPE.

THE FOURTH INCREASE TOOK PLACE IN 1924-1931, DURING WHICH 81,613 IMMIGRANTS ROSE, MOST OF THEM (ABOUT 60,000 IMMIGRANTS) IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DECADE FROM 1924 TO 1926.

THE FIFTH RISE BEGAN IN 1932 AND ENDED IN THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II IN 1939. THIS INCREASE, WHICH INCLUDED IMMIGRANTS FROM EUROPE AND ASIA, BEGAN AS A SMALL STREAM, WHICH HAD INCREASED IN 1933 TO 1935 WITH THE RISE OF THE NAZIS TO POWER IN GERMANY. THE STREAM OF IMMIGRATION WAS WEAKENED IN 1936 IN THE OUTBREAK OF THE GREAT ARAB REVOLT, AND RETURNED TO OVERCOME THE YEARS 1938-1939. THIS SHIP CAME TO ISRAEL ABOUT 180,000 IMMIGRANTS, ONE THIRD OF THEM FROM GERMANY.

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO THE END OF 1945, I HAD 81,808 IMMIGRANTS. FROM 1946 TO 5/1948, WHEN THE STATE WAS DECLARED, 56,467 IMMIGRANTS CAME TO ISRAEL.

FROM 1881 TO THE DATE OF THE BRITISH MANDATE, 514,846 IMMIGRANTS ARRIVED.

THE GOVERNMENT OF MANDATE IN HIS EARLY YEARS
IN THE SUMMER OF 1920, HERBERT SAMUEL, THE FIRST HIGH COMMISSIONER OF THE MANDATORY GOVERNMENT, AUTHORIZED THE ZIONIST HISTADRUT TO RAISE ISRAEL 16,500 OF LIVING (FATHERS OF A FATHER’S HOUSE), A NUMBER THAT WAS VERY CLOSE TO WHAT THE ZIONIST HISTADRUT REQUESTED. THERE WAS A FREE RISE WITHOUT RESTRICTIVE CRITERIA, BUT THE POSSIBILITY OF THE HISTADRUT WAS POSSIBLE