A push for immigration into Israel has started, mainly due to a world-wide rise in antisemitism.
"Alyiah" is the Hebrew word for immigrationcoming into Israel.
"According to a statement to the press, the plan came as a result of the sharp increase in antisemitism in the US and Europe since the war broke out on Oct. 7, which has led to a dramatic rise in people registering for aliyah – a 300% rise in France compared to the parallel period a year before; a 100% rise in the US; 150% in Canada; and 40% in the UK." https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-787469
Significant incentives and assistance is now offered for people to immigrate to Israel.
When incentives are offered to facilitate, this is a sure sign that a chasm is in front of the vast majority, hindering them from coming to Israel. Therefore incentives are used to induce &/or help people cross the chasm.
"Crossing the Chasm" has begun for immigration into Israel. Based on the 1991 best selling book of Geoffrey Moore. Click on the image for a full-size version. |
Crossing the Chasm explains that it isn't a smooth transition from a new idea to 100% adoption. The innovators are 2.5%. The early adopters are 13.5%. Then the Chasm, before the final 84% can adopt the change.
The Chasm is fraught with difficulty. Here is a 22 second clip of a skier accidently falling into a huge crevasse on the Le Grave glacier in the French Alps in 2022. Yes, it appears to be a bottomless hole. Somehow, the skier made it out alive, and posted his now famous video in May 2023.
https://youtu.be/M3GNXe0PozE?si=5jKskVakNrE5AcEY
Jews who are now in Israel, and those immigrating to Israel will soon be in a similar danger as that skier in his ice chasm.
Zionism, the belief in a homeland for Jews, started in 1897 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Zionist_Congress
To immigrate to a non-existing country required someone to "illegally" escape from their prior homeland, secretly travel to the future Israel, then "illegally" establish a homestead in the biblical homeland of the future Israel. I place the word illegally in quotations to signify that the laws of men for immigration to Israel were then contrary to the laws of God.
From 1897, they were the Innovators.
Around the time of WW2, were the early adopters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah#:~:text=During%20World%20War%20II%20and,from%20Eastern%20Europe%20through%20Poland.
In the 1980's USSR finally allows Jews to freely leave the USSR for immigration to Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_post-Soviet_aliyah#:~:text=The%201990s%20post%2DSoviet%20aliyah,leave%20the%20country%20for%20Israel.
There were no incentives, just a dream and hardship. Immigration to Israel was similar to Nehemiah returning to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity, rebuilding Jerusalem's walls in ~445 BC, with a mason's trowel in one hand, and a sword for protection against attack in the other hand (see: Bible, Book of Nehemiah 4:1-17). Nothing new under the sun.
The chasm was originally created in 70 AD when Rome totally destroyed Jerusalem and banned Jews.
The chasm was deepened and widened when:
- in 132 AD, Bar Kokhba led a rebellion against Roman Emperor Hadrian, a revolt connected with the renaming of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina. After four years of devastating warfare, the uprising was suppressed, and Jews were forbidden access to Jerusalem.
- 614 AD - Persians Capture Jerusalem
- 634 AD Al Aqsa Mosque was built on Temple Mount, now designated as 3rd most holy site for Islam
- 638 AD - Muslim enters Jerusalem
- 661-750 CE - Jerusalem Ruled Under Muslim Dynasty
- 691 CE - Muslim temple built on Jerusalem's Temple Mount
- 750-974 CE - Jerusalem Ruled Under Muslim Dynasty
- 1917 - British Capture Jerusalem in World War I
- 1948 - State of Israel Established; Jerusalem Divided By Armistice Lines Between Israel & Jordan.
- 1967 - Israel Captures Jerusalem's Old City and Eastern Half; Reunites City, but immediately surrenders Temple Mount administration to the Waqf under the Jordanian Hashemite custodianship, while maintaining Israeli security control. The Israeli government enforces a ban on prayer by non-Muslims as part of an arrangement usually referred to as the "status quo". The site remains a major focal point of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
- Sources: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/timeline-for-the-history-of-jerusalem-4500-bce-present
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Mount
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