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1840 and 1880, the Jewish population in Ottoman Syria rose from 9,000 to 23,000). However, nearly all of the Jews from Eastern Europe before the First Aliyah came from traditional Jewish families who were inspired by traditional ideas of the holiness of the land combined with practical/economic considerations, rather than by modern Zionist ideology. Thus the First Aliyah represents the beginning of organized Zionism in the Land of Israel, differentiating it from earlier

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