Yishuv

With Yishuv (Hebrew: ישוב; " inhabited land, settlement " ) is called the Jewish population of Palestine prior to the founding of Israel.

The term comes from the Zionist movement of the 1880s and originally referred to the Jews who lived between the first wave of immigration ( = first Aliyah ) in 1882 and the Palestine war in 1948 in Palestine, the Yishuv at the beginning of the great immigration of about 25,000 people included and the time of the founding of the state already 700,000.

But one also finds the term "Old Yishuv " in use for the politically unorganized settlers before 1882. So, we are now also to distinguish the "New Yishuv ", which began to organize themselves, to politicize urged to a community, 1903 the first Knesset and 1920 elections to the Assembly of Delegates allowed. 1928, the Yishuv was officially recognized by the British government.