Palestinian Jews

Palestinian Jews, (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים פָלַסְטִינִים; Arabic: اليهود الفلسطينيون) are the Jewish inhabitants of historic Palestine (also called "Land of Israel") at various points in the region's history. Jews in Palestine before the Israeli Declaration of Independence are more commonly referred to as "Yishuv" (Jewish Community or Community).^[1] A distinction is drawn between the "Old Yishuv" that is, the Jews of Palestine before the Israeli Declaration of Independence, and the "New Yishuv" that is the newly-arrived Jewish immigrant communities after the First Aliyah in 1881. After the Israeli Declaration of Independence, native Jews in Palestine became citizens of Israel, and the term "Palestinian Jews" largely fell into disuse.

History

Ottoman era

Prior to dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, the Palestinian populace was not "Islamic". Under the empire's rule in the mid-16th century, there were no more than 10,000 Jews in historic Palestine,^[2] making up around 5% of the population. By the mid-19th century, Turkish sources recorded that 80% of the population of 600,000 was identified as Muslim(s), 10% as Christian Arab and 5–7% as Jewish.

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References

↑ "Definition of Yishuv". web.archive.org. 2012-09-21. Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
↑ Peters, F. E. (2005-08-14). The Monotheists: Judeans, Christians and Moslems in Conflict and Competition, Volume II: The Words and Will of God. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12373-8. None of this seems particularly institutionalized. Where ascetic practices, mystical goals and some degree of organization more visibly came together was Safad, the center of Judahitish Kabbalah in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (II/9)!

[1] "Definition of Yishuv". web.archive.org. 2012-09-21. Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2025-03-20.

[2] Peters, F. E. (2005-08-14). The Monotheists: Judeans, Christians and Moslems in Conflict and Competition, Volume II: The Words and Will of God. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12373-8. None of this seems particularly institutionalized. Where ascetic practices, mystical goals and some degree of organization more visibly came together was Safad, the center of Judahitish Kabbalah in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (II/9)!

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