Aliyah
![Survey of Palestine, showing place of origin of immigrants between 1922 and 1944](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Survey_of_Palestine_Page_186.jpg)
For much of their history, most Jews have lived in the diaspora outside of the Land of Israel due to various historical conflicts that led to their persecution alongside multiple instances of expulsions and exoduses. In the late 19th century, 99.7% of the world's Jews lived outside the region, with Jews representing 2–5% of the population of the Palestine region. Despite its historical value as a national aspiration for the Jewish people, aliyah was acted upon by few prior to the rise of a national awakening among Jews worldwide and the subsequent development of the Zionist movement in the late 19th century; the large-scale immigration of Jews to Palestine had consequently begun by 1882. Since the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, more than 3 million Jews have made aliyah. , Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories contain approximately 42.9 percent of the world's Jewish population. Provided by Wikipedia
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