Yishuv
Yishuv () is a
Hebrew word meaning "settlement." This term (or the full term "ישוב "י"ו"י בארץ ישראל "Hayishuv Hayehudi b'Eretz Yisrael" which literally means "The settlement [of] the Hebrews in [the] land [of] Israel" and figuratively means
the Jewish settlement in Palestine) was used in the
Zionist movement, before the establishment of
Israel, to refer to the body of
Jewish residents in
Palestine. The residents and new settlers were referred to collectively as "
the Yishuv." The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living in Palestine, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were about 700,000 Jews in Palestine.
A distinction is sometimes drawn between the
Old Yishuv, referring to orthodox Jews (some of them non-Zionist, or even anti-Zionist) living in Palestine under
Ottoman rule before 1918, and the
New Yishuv, referring to the much larger Jewish settlement, who immigrated to Palestine with the Zionist movement, mostly under the British
Mandate for Palestine after 1922.
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