That depends when. Before they were exiled all over the world, the Jews were in Israel.
There are Jews all over the world. The one who live in Israel are Israeli Jews, like those in the U.S called American Jews.
Jewish communities can be found all over the world. Many Jews consider Israel to be the Jewish "homeland." As of now, the United States of America has the largest Jewish population.
The answer depends on how the question is read:Reading 1: At what time did only Jews and no other people live in Israel?Never. Jewish people have lived in Israel for thousands of years, but there has never been a time when ONLY Jewish people lived within it's borders.Reading 2: At what time did all Jews live exclusively in Israel?The Jewish People lived exclusively in Israel from their early development as a nation (in what is now Israel and the West Bank) up to 586 BCE when the Babylonians conquered the Kingdom of Judah and exiled the Jewish aristocracy to Babylon (and therefore made part of the Jewish community live outside of Israel). Never again did the Jews exclusively live in Israel.
AnswerThe Babylonian Exile began in 586BC, when the Judahite city of Jerusalem was destroyed and its population taken captive. A small community returned to Judah at the end of the century. They did not 'return' to Israel, as Israel no longer existed, having ceased to exist over two hundred years earlier.
Jews have been exiled and persecuted over the centuries, but we're still here. See the Related Links. Link: Where do Jews liveLink: How have the Jews survived so long
It's a myth that there were no Jews living in Israel for 2000 years. Jews have been living in Israel without interruption for over 3000 years. The modern return to Israel by Jews living outside of the land started in the 1800's when they began to have the freedom to do so.
Israel is the Jewish homeland, but it is not new. It was given to the Israelites well over three thousand years ago by God (Genesis ch.28, Deuteronomy ch.1). See also:Where_did_Jews_live_in_more_than_anywhere_else
This question isn't literate. But I'll attemt to answer what I can understand. Israel was, in fact, Palestine after the Crusades. However, in the 1800, the Jewish people began to return to their homeland, and after the horrors of the holocaust, the newly-formed UN gave the Jewish people their homeland back, after 1878 years, after the expulsion of the Jews from Judea/ The Kingdom of Israel in 70 BC.
The Jews were in exile several times in their history, they were in exile in Egypt during Moses time, in the time of Daniel, and also under the Babylonians under Ezra.And they had to come back home each time.
At the time of the First Destruction (over two millenia ago), the Jews were exiled from the Holy Land. At that time, the first Jews began living in (southern) Europe.
The majority of Indian Jews have immigrated to Israel since the creation of the modern state in 1948. A total of 75,000 Indian Jews now live in Israel (over 1% of Israel's total population). Today there are less than 1000 Jews in India.