Mandatory Palestine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Jewish immigration==== {{main|Aliyah}} [[File:Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine (1920-1945).jpg|500px|thumb|Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine from 1920 to 1945]] During the Mandate, the Yishuv grew from one-sixth to almost one-third of the population. According to official records, 367,845 Jews and 33,304 non-Jews immigrated legally between 1920 and 1945.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Survey of Palestine: Prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the Information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry |volume=1|page=185|publisher=Govt. printer|location=Palestine|year=1946}}</ref> It was estimated that another 50β60,000 Jews and a marginal number of Arabs, the latter mostly on a seasonal basis, immigrated illegally during this period.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Survey of Palestine: Prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the Information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry |volume=1|publisher=Govt. printer|location=Palestine|year=1946}} p. 210: "Arab illegal immigration is mainly ... casual, temporary and seasonal". pp. 212: "The conclusion is that Arab illegal immigration for the purpose of permanent settlement is insignificant".</ref> Immigration accounted for most of the increase of Jewish population, while the non-Jewish population increase was largely natural.<ref>{{Cite book|author=J. McCarthy|title=The population of Palestine: population history and statistics of the late Ottoman period and the Mandate|publisher=Darwin Press|year=1995|location=Princeton, N.J.}}</ref> Of the Jewish immigrants, in 1939 most had come from Germany and Czechoslovakia, but in 1940β1944 most came from Romania and Poland, with an additional 3,530 immigrants arriving from Yemen during the same period.<ref>''Supplement to Survey of Palestine β Notes compiled for the information of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine β June 1947'', Gov. Printer Jerusalem, p. 18</ref> Initially, Jewish immigration to Palestine met little opposition from the [[Palestinian Arab]]s. However, as [[anti-Semitism]] grew in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jewish immigration (mostly from Europe) to Palestine began to increase markedly. Combined with the growth of Arab nationalism in the region and increasing anti-Jewish sentiments the growth of the Jewish population created much Arab resentment. The British government placed limitations on Jewish immigration to Palestine. These quotas were controversial, particularly in the latter years of British rule, and both Arabs and Jews disliked the policy, each for their own reasons. Jewish immigrants were to be afforded Palestinian citizenship: {{blockquote|Article 7. The Administration of Palestine shall be responsible for enacting a nationality law. There shall be included in this law provisions framed so as to facilitate the acquisition of Palestinian citizenship by Jews who take up their permanent residence in Palestine.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict |publisher=Cambridge University Press |author=John B. Quigley |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iTR3BQ0aJ6UC&pg=PA54 |page=54 |isbn=978-0-521-15165-8}}</ref>}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page