First of all, sweetheart, Nazi Germany never had Zionist policies. There has been a continuous Jewish population in Israel for a little over 3,000 years now, although there have been times when their numbers dropped very low. The modern migration of Jews back to Israel began sometime late in the 19th Century (that was the 18 hundreds). That was the time when the individual Jews and the small communities of Jews, who always knew that they werent actually welcome anywhere, began to share that realization with each other. If there were any who hadnt actually realized it yet, it was hard for them to miss the way that as soon as things began to go bad for this country or that one or the other one, there were always loud voices high up in that country who blamed all of the countrys problems on the Jews who lived there. So the idea began to take hold among the Jews that it might actually be possible to start rebuilding Jewish culture and society in the place where they always belonged, in Israel. As Czarist Russia was falling apart and things were going from bad to worse for Russian Jews, many of those who were able to leave Russia did so. My grandparents went to Argentina and to the US. Many other Russian Jews went to Israel. As Germany was going downhill in the 1920s and 30s and blaming it on the Jews, great numbers of Jews continued to ignore what was happening and believe that it would get better. Great numbers of other Jews who were able to leave Germany did that, and migrated to many other countries around the world, including Israel. By the time the Nazis had solidified power and created their policies specifically aimed at Jews, in the late 1930s, Jews were no longer allowed to come and go as they felt like it. Zionist policy is a policy that says Jews should be able to establish a Jewish nation in Israel. That was not the policy of Nazi Germany. The policy of Nazi Germany said that Jews are inferior human beings, that it is Germanys job to clean them off of the Earth, and that special railroad lines and death camps should be built to do the job. And thats exactly what Germany did, from 1938 until 1945, capturing and killing millions of Jews (and others) in Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, France, and Holland. After Germany lost the Second World War in 1945, most of the Jews who were still alive in those countries left, and went to other places. A lot of them went to Israel. Israel became a country in 1948, and since that time, there have been migrations to Israel of Jews from many countries, including large numbers from Russia, from Ethiopia, from Yemen, and from the US and Canada. In 1937, Zeev Jabotinsky proposed a mass exodus of Polish Jews to Mandatory Palestine, but before he could pitch the idea to the Polish Jewish communities (3.3 million people ... of whom 3 million would be mass-murdered), the British opposed the entry of any Polish Jews into Mandatory Palestine fearing Arab reprisals. If you wish to specifically discuss Immigration to Mandatory Palestine during the height of the Holocaust (1939-1945) you should note that the British White Paper of 1939 further minimized the legal Jewish immigration to a trickle. This widely prevented Jews from settling in Mandatory Palestine until after 1948 when the State of Israel was declared and opened its borders.
Holidays in Israel
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There are around 17 holidays observed in Israel.
Here is the list of holidays in 2021
- Friday Feb 26, 2021 Purim is a Not A Public Holiday (Except Jeruslaem)
- Sunday Feb 28, 2021 Shushan Purim is a Not A Public Holiday (Jerusalem)
- Sunday Mar 28, 2021 Pesach I is a Public Holiday (Passover begins)
- Saturday Apr 03, 2021 Pesach VII is a Public Holiday (Passover ends)
- Wednesday Apr 14, 2021 Memorial Day is a Not A Public Holiday (Statutory holiday)
- Thursday Apr 15, 2021 Independence Day (in lieu) is a Public Holiday (National Day)
- Sunday May 09, 2021 Victory Day is a Public Holiday
- Monday May 10, 2021 Jerusalem Day is a Not A Public Holiday
- Monday May 17, 2021 Pentecost is a Public Holiday (Shavuot)
- Sunday Jul 18, 2021 Fast of Ninth of Av is a Public Holiday
- Tuesday Sep 07, 2021 Rosh Hashanah is a Public Holiday (Jewish New Year)
- Wednesday Sep 08, 2021 Rosh Hashanah is a Public Holiday ()
- Thursday Sep 16, 2021 Day of Atonement is a Public Holiday (Yom Kippur)
- Tuesday Sep 21, 2021 Sukkot is a Public Holiday (Feast of Tabernacles)
- Wednesday Sep 29, 2021 Simchat Torah is a Public Holiday
- Monday Nov 29, 2021 Hanukkah is a Not A Public Holiday (A holiday period, but not a national holiday)
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