Aliyah

Aliyah (US /ˌæ.lɪ.ˈɑː/, UK /ˌɑː.li.ˈɑː/; Hebrew: עֲלִיָּה aliyah, "ascent") is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel in Hebrew). Also defined as "the act of going up"—that is, towards Jerusalem—"making Aliyah" by moving to the Land of Israel is one of the most basic tenets of Zionism. The opposite action, emigration from the Land of Israel, is referred to in Hebrew as yerida ("descent"). The State of Israel's Law of Return gives Jews and their descendants automatic rights regarding residency and Israeli citizenship.

For much of Jewish history most Jews have lived in the diaspora where aliyah was developed as a national aspiration for the Jewish people, although it was not usually fulfilled until the development of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century. The large-scale immigration of Jews to Palestine began in 1882. Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, more than 3 million Jews have moved to Israel. As of 2014, Israel and the Palestinian territories together contain 42.9% of the world's Jewish population.

Glossary of botanical terms

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1. in flowering plants, ring of structures that may be united in a tube, arising from the corolla or perianth of a flower and standing between the perianth lobes and the stamens. The trumpet of a

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a formal category equivalent to or below the rank of genus. It distinguishes:

1. an assemblage of two or more cultivars within a species or hybrid.

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as a name misapplied by gardeners

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1. the upper of 2 bracts enclosing a grass flower, major contributors to chaff in harvested grain.

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See also

Glossary of plant morphology

International scientific vocabulary

Leaf shape

Plant morphology

Floral formula – abbreviations used in describing flower parts

References

Bibliography

External links

Glossary at: APweb

A glossary of botanical terms in English At: Flora, etc.

Olim (disambiguation)

Olim means "immigrants" on aliyah to Israel.

Olim L'Berlin is a snowclone of that notion, used as protest against high consumer prices in Israel.

Olim may also refer to:

Olim (botany)

People with the name

Luís Olim (born 1981), Portuguese professional footballer

Jason Olim, CEO and a co-founder of Freshman Fund

Olim Navkarov (born 1983), Uzbekistani footballer

Olim Kamalov, Tajik artist

See also

Mr Olim, a novel by Ernest Raymond