The Zionist movement begins in 1882 with…

The Zionist movement begins in 1882 with the first wave of European Jewish immigration to Palestine —the First Aliyah (1882-1903), or immigration—when Russian Jews establish the first Zionist agricultural settlement, the village of Rosh Pinna (Hebrew, “cornerstone”) in 1882.

Other private acquisitions of land in Palestine had followed that of Sir Moses Montefiore in Jaffa in 1855, and by 1882, Jews have purchased some twenty-two hundred hectares.