Jerusalem Notables Oppose Jewish Immigration

The Ottoman law of nationality aligns with similar European laws, in terms of presumption of nationality.

The passage of the Ottoman Education Law brings about a massive expansion of the modern educational system throughout the empire, in particular in major cities in the Levant.

The Treaty of Berlin is signed by Russia and the Ottoman Empire, together with other European powers, in the aftermath of the Russian victorious war (that started in April 1877) over the Ottomans.

To avoid dealing with another national problem within the empire, the Ottoman Council of Ministers spells out the conditions that shall govern Jewish immigration: (1) European Jews are welcome to...

Tension mounts between Palestinian Arabs from the village of al-Yahudiyya and Jewish settlers from the Petah Tikva settlement over land ownership and grazing and passage rights.

Theodor Herzl sends a letter to the Palestinian mayor of Jerusalem, Yusuf Diya-uddin Pasha al-Khalidi, hinting that, if Zionists are not welcome in Palestine, they will go elsewhere.

Upon his request, Herzl appears before a special British government commission that was established in March to consider ways to restrict increasing immigration from Eastern Europe, including the...

David Wolffsohn, a close associate of Theodor Herzl and director of the Jewish Colonial Trust, takes over the leadership of the Zionist movement.

Egyptian and Ottoman representatives sign in Rafah ”Administrative Separating Line" between the Mutasarrifiyya of Jerusalem and the Province of Hijaz on one side and, on the other side, the Sinai...

Jews who had come to Palestine during the second immigration wave meet at the home of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (who will be elected the second president of the State of Israel in 1952) in Jaffa and establish...