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Jews who survived the Holocaust wanted to go to Israel as it was trying to create a truly Jewish state. However, those Jews who tried to go home after the war found squatters living on their property who did not want to return the property to its rightful owners. Anti-Semitism had become entrenched, especially in smaller, less educated communities. Jews no longer had a place in Europe and wanted to live where they would not have to worry about discrimination.

In the case of Jews from Arab countries (who immigrated primarily in 1950-1955), many of them left to escape persecution and discrimination in those countries which was only mounting. Regardless of whether or not they supported the State of Israel or not, many Jews in Arab countries were found "guilty" of supporting Israel by the Court of Public Opinion and there were riots and pogroms.

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Q: How many Jewish refugees came to palestine in 1945?
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Why did the Jews migrate to Palestine?

After the Romans expelled the Jews from Judea and renamed it Palestine, a Jewish presence continued in outlying places like Hebron, Tiberias and Safed. This was a very small presence, but when Byzantine Palestine fell to Arab armies in the year 638, the new Muslim rulers allowed Jewish settlement. The Crusaders slaughtered and expelled the Jewish and Muslim communities in 1099. In 1187, Saladin drove out the Crusaders and Jews were again welcome. Jewish settlements in Jerusalem, in particular, were not terribly prosperous, but when the Jews of Spain were expelled in 1492, many came to Palestine (others dispersed across North Africa and up the Adriatic coast to Venice, as well as Sicily and Italy). For many years, the Ottoman Empire encouraged Jewish settlement as an economic development tool. In late Ottoman times, however, the flood of refugees from Russian persecution led the Ottoman Empire to worry about possible Jewish majorities in some towns. By this point, the Ottoman Empire was essentially a Turkish nation and not the pan-Islamic center it had aspired to, and the response to Jewish settlement was a program of moving Turkish settlers into the land. Combined pressure from Jews and Turks led to the formation of resistance organizations like the Islamic Brotherhood. As World War I devastated central Europe, the pressure of Jewish refugees continued to mount, and resistance to refugee resettlement mounted in response -- to see why, look at the response of modern communities that face waves of refugees; it doesn't matter where they come from. In the case of Jewish refugees in Palestine, the global Jewish community helped by financing the purchase of property for the refugees. Things can get ugly, and they did. World War II triggered another wave of refugees, and despite the fact that refugees were settling on land they bought, tensions rose, the British left, and there was the 1948 war. One consequence of this and the fall of the French North African empire was the expulsion of the Jewish populations of much of the Arab world, creating yet another wave of refugees into the new state of Israel. As with every previous wave, not all went to Israel/Palestine. France and the United States welcomed many, and some moved to many other places.


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What was going on in Israel in 1945?

Israel was not a state in 1945. The land was called Palestine at that time and was populated by around 1 million Arab Christians and Muslims and a small minority of Jews (about 1% of the population). The British occupied Palestine until Jewish immigrants came in overwhelming numbers after WWII (mostly from Europe) and forced the British to leave so that the Jews could rule the land instead. 600,000 Jews under British marshal law. Germans were on a break into Egypt and on to Israel. Great concern. The British won. Many Jew escaped Europe because of the holocaust . Came to leave and developed the country. For more historical info see the Related Links


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If this is referring to history in general, the region of Palestine was the historic Jewish homeland. It would be like asking: How did the Bushmen get to Namibia? -- It's where they come from and where they've lived for many centuries. If this is specifically referring to the Return of Jews in large numbers to the region of Palestine in the last century, it should be noted that there was a relatively large Jewish minority already present in the region prior to the Jewish immigration from elsewhere. Those Jews who did arrive immigrated through normal procedures until Israel declared independence. Jewish immigration substantially rose from 1948-1955, especially from the Arab countries which had forcibly expelled their Jewish populations. They came primarily by boats and planes.


How many Jews came to the United States from Europe during World War 2?

During the period of World War 2 after the United States entered the fray in December 1941, only a few thousand Jews were admitted as immigrants to the U.S. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that more than 200,000 Jews found refuge in the United States from 1933 to 1945, but most of the Jewish refugees were admitted before the end of 1941. This may be an over-statement: the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History states that between 1933 and 1945 the United States took in only 132,000 Jewish refugees, only ten percent of the quota allowed by law.


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It is important to note that there were Jewish communities living in the what would become Israel during the Ottoman Period. However, Jewish people immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from 1919-1948 due to their aspiration to create a Jewish State. This aspiration was codified in the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine which facilitates Jewish immigration. This Mandate was given to the British for supervision. Then in 1947, the British came to the United Nations so that they could handle the future of the territory and the UN came to the conclusion that there should be two states for two peoples, passing UN Resolution 181 with binding effect. After Israel used the UN Resolution to declare independence, Jews were freely permitted to enter. There was no "invasion" of Jews, this is hyperbole.


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Some places were Britain, Palestine(later known as Israel),and another place was France.___Refugees from Nazi Germany were not able to pick and chose. Practically all countries had strict controls on immigration, and these were rigorously enforced. At the time, very few countries (if any) had a legally enshrined right to asylum.Many Jews fled to neighbouring countries, such as France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In those cases they again came under Nazi control when these countries were invaded ... Some fled to Switzerland, but the Swiss authorities were cautious.The favoured destination of many German Jews was the U.S. but there were strict quotas. Nevertheless, between 1933 and 1941 the U.S admitted about 250,000 refugees from Germany and Austria.Other countries where refugees, both Jewish and non-Jewish, migrated to included:Britain (71,000)Australia (50,000)Argentina (until 1938, when the government banned further immigration)The Soviet Union (mainly for active Communists - admitted about 250,000 refugees, Jewish and non-Jewish, from Nazi Germany)City of Shanghai, China (under Japanese rule - admitted about 25,000)South Africa (until 1935 only, when a ban was introduced)Palestine (but strict quotas)US - (250,000 - see above)Canada (admitted only 8,000 refugees)Turkey admitted about ... 1,000