They say: “Jews were never here before 1948!”
But that’s completely false!
✡️ Jerusalem already had a Jewish majority in the mid-1800s, decades before political Zionism even existed. Longing had already become presence. A living Jewish community in its ancient capital.
In 1857, James Finn, the British Consul in Ottoman Jerusalem, reported to London:
“The Jews form the largest portion of the population of Jerusalem.”
✡️ Gaza had Jewish life since biblical times. In the 16th century, it was home to Rabbi Israel Najara, one of the great Hebrew poets and the rabbi of Gaza at the time.
✡️ Safed was a thriving Jewish epicenter in the 16th century. It became the world center of Kabbalah, home to Rabbi Isaac Luria and Rabbi Yosef Karo, and for roughly a century rivaled Jerusalem in influence.
✡️ Hebron maintained an ancient and continuous Jewish community, with synagogues, neighborhoods, burial grounds, and scholarship rooted in the patriarchal era.
✡️ Tiberias was a central rabbinic authority from the 2nd to 5th centuries AD. The Sanhedrin held its final seat there, and the Jerusalem Talmud was finalized in its academies.
History did not begin in the 1800s.
The
#Zionist movement did not invent Jewish history here. It restored and strengthened what already existed for over 3,300 years.
🇮🇱 The Nation of Israel Lives🇮🇱(Author unknown)
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