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Aliyah

Aliyah is a Hebrew term, literally meaning "ascent", widely used to mean Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel (and since its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel). The opposite action, Jewish emigration away from Israel, is called yerida.

Aliyah is an important Jewish cultural concept and is enshrined in Israeli laws that theoretically permit the immigration of any Jew to Israel.

In Zionist history, different waves aliyah, beginning with the arrival of the Biluim from Russia in 1882, are known at aliyot (the plural of aliyah). These aliyot are often categorized by date and the country of origin of the immigrants.

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