Palestinian Jews

A Palestinian Jew can refer to a Jewish inhabitant of Palestine at various points in the region's history. Jews in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel are referred to in Hebrew as " HaYishuv HaYehudi Be'Eretz Yisra'el (The Jewish Community in the Land of Israel). A distinction is drawn between the " Old Yishuv ," that is, the pre-existing Jews in the land of Israel, and the " New Yishuv ," that is, the newly-arrived Jewish immigrants into Mandate Palestine . Under the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the mid-16th century, there were no more than 10,000 Jews in all of Palestine. Prior to the Empire's dismemberment, the population of the area comprising modern Israel , the West Bank , and Gaza Strip was not exclusively Muslim. About 20% of the Arabic-speaking population was Christian, and about 11% Jewish. After the modern State of Israel was born, all but a few native Palestinian Jews became citizens of Israel, and the term "Palestinian Jews" largely fell into disuse. The preferred term today in Israel is the abovementioned " Old Yishuv " (in Hebrew היישוב הישן, HaYishuv HaYashan or "The Old Settlement"). Among Arabic-speaking Palestinians there are/were, most numerously, Sunni Muslims, Druze , Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Christians, Bahá'ís , Samaritans , and Jews. The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume II: The Words and Will of Godfirst1=Francis E. The population of Palestine: population history and statistics of the late Ottoman period and the Mandate .

The common term for the Jewish community of British Mandatory Palestine prior to the establishment of Israel is Yishuv ("settlement"). A distinction is drawn between the "New Yishuv", largely composed of and descended from immigrants after the First Aliyah in 1881, and the " Old Yishuv ", the pre-existing Jewish community of Palestine prior to the First Aliyah. In addition to applying to Jews who lived in Palestine during the British Mandate era, the term has also been applied to Jewish residents of Ottoman Palestine ( Southern Syria ), and there are scholarly instances of referring to the Jews of the Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Secunda provinces (4th to 7th centuries CE) of the Byzantine Empire in Late Antiquity as "Palestinian Jews". After the establishment of Israel in 1948, the Jews of Mandatory Palestine became Israeli citizens , and the term "Palestinian Jews" has largely fallen into disuse, in favor of the term Israeli Jews . As of 2015 it is used to label Jews (mostly Israelis), who have asked to receive Palestinian passports for various, most notably political, reasons.

The common term for the Jewish community of Ottoman Syria during the 19th century, and British Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel is Yishuv ("settlement"). A distinction is drawn between the "New Yishuv", largely composed of and descended from immigrants after the First Aliyah in 1881, and the " Old Yishuv ", the pre-existing Jewish community of Palestine prior to the First Aliyah. In addition to applying to Jews who lived in Palestine during the British Mandate era, the term "Palestinian Jews" has also been applied to Jewish residents of Southern Syria , the southern part of the Ottoman province of Syria , and there are scholarly instances of referring to the Jews of the Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Secunda provinces (4th to 7th centuries CE) of the Byzantine Empire in Late Antiquity as "Palestinian Jews". After the establishment of Israel in 1948, the Jews of Mandatory Palestine became Israeli citizens , and the term "Palestinian Jews" has largely fallen into disuse and is somewhat defunct, in favor of the term Israeli Jews .

The common term used to refer to the Jewish communities of Ottoman Syria during the 19th century and British Palestine prior to the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel is Yishuv ( lit. ' settlement ' ). A distinction is drawn between the "New Yishuv", which was largely composed of and descended from Jewish immigrants who arrived in the Levant during the First Aliyah (1881–1903), and the " Old Yishuv ", which was the pre-existing Jewish community of Palestine prior to the consolidation of Zionism and the First Aliyah. In addition to applying to Jews who lived in Palestine during the British Mandate era, the term Palestinian Jews has been applied to the Jewish residents of Southern Syria , corresponding to the southern part of the Syria region under the Ottoman Empire ; there are also historical scholarly instances in which Jews residing in the Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Secunda provinces (4th to 7th centuries CE) of the Byzantine Empire in Late Antiquity were referred to as Palestinian Jews . After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the Jews of Mandatory Palestine became Israeli citizens , and the term Palestinian Jews has largely fallen into disuse and is somewhat defunct, in favour of the modern term Israeli Jews .