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    The return to Zion (Hebrew: שִׁיבָת צִיּוֹן or שבי ציון, Shivat Tzion or Shavei Tzion, lit. 'Zion returnees') is an event recorded in Ezra–Nehemiah of...
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    Zionism (redirect from Zion movement)
    a return to Zion. The conference of rabbis held at Frankfurt am Main over July 15–28, 1845, deleted from the ritual all prayers for a return to Zion and...
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    Zion Lateef Williamson (born July 6, 2000) is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association...
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  • of Jerusalem." "May our eyes behold your return to Zion...Blessed are you, who restores his presence to Zion." The Mussaf prayer states: "But because...
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    conquered Babylon and the Edict of Cyrus repatriated the Jews in the return to Zion. The name "Ezekiel" means "God is strong" or "God strengthens" in Hebrew...
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    Homeland for the Jewish people (category Articles to be expanded from October 2023)
    rooted in Jewish history, religion, and culture. The Jewish aspiration to return to Zion, generally associated with divine redemption, has suffused Jewish...
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    authorized and encouraged exiled Jews to return to Judah. Cyrus' proclamation began the exiles' return to Zion, inaugurating the formative period in which...
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  • right to relocate to Israel and acquire Israeli citizenship. Section 1 of the Law of Return declares that "every Jew has the right to come to this country...
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    Second Temple (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    as having authorized and encouraged the return to Zion—a biblical event in which the Jewish people returned to the former Kingdom of Judah, which the Persians...
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  • monarchy of the Kingdom of Israel. Return to Zion (Hebrew: שִׁיבָת צִיּוֹן or שבי ציון, Shivat Tzion or Shavei Tzion, lit. 'Zion returnees') is an event recorded...
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  • (who were descendants of those King David enslaved) to join the Jews who were returning to Zion. Robert H. Hewsen, Armenia: A Historical Atlas, University...
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    Achaemenid Empire, in 539 BC, he allowed the exiled Judeans to return to Zion and rebuild Jerusalem. The Second Temple was completed in 516 BC. Whereas...
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  • described in the Tanakh, which claims that it authorized and encouraged the return to Zion and the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem (i.e., the Second Temple)...
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  • Christian tradition. Composed in Hebrew and Aramaic, its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity. Together with the Book...
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    Cyrus the Great (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    lasting legacy on Judaism due to his role in facilitating the return to Zion, a migratory event in which the Jews returned to the Land of Israel following...
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    mixing these time periods is to tie together the returnees to Zion then and today. The common between the exile and the return is the exile itself, the connection...
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    to have been formulated, is the idea of universal Messianism. The belief in redemption was unhinged from the traditional elements of return to Zion and...
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    arrived from Yemen. Many of the immigrants were affiliated with Hovevei Zion. Hovevei Zion purchased land from Arabs and other Ottoman subjects and created various...
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    000 Jews returned to Zion following the Cyrus Declaration from 538 BC. The Jewish priestly scribe Ezra led the Jewish exiles living in Babylon to their home...
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    Yehud Medinata (category Return to Zion)
    described in the Hebrew Bible as his authorization and encouragement of the return to Zion, thereby ending the Babylonian captivity. The province's overall population...
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  • encouraged to return, typically after the balance of military and political forces had changed. A well-known example is the return to Zion, by which King...
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  • through the return to Zion) and practical considerations (e.g., desire to escape the worsening conditions in their lands of origin and to improve their...
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    University Press. 2nd edition. p. 41. Sternfeld, Lior B. (2019). Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Stanford: Stanford University...
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  • ships of Zion. An army of Sentinels is tunneling towards Zion and will reach it within 72 hours. Commander Lock orders all ships to return to Zion to prepare...
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  • Operation Solomon Operation Yachin Pre-Modern Aliyah Proto-Zionism Return to Zion Yom HaAliyah Berg, Nancy E. (2012). Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers...
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    Al-Yahudu Tablets (category Return to Zion)
    to 477 BCE, during the reign of Xerxes I, about 60 years after the Return to Zion began and about 20 years before the rise of Ezra the Scribe. The public...
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    the Second Temple stood in the city of Jerusalem. It began with the return to Zion and subsequent reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, and ended...
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    Zion National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah near the town of Springdale. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau...
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  • Within the Latter Day Saint movement, Zion is often used to connote an association of the righteous. This association would practice a form of communitarian...
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    associated with the return to Zion. The term was considered appropriate for the secular Jewish political movement of Zionism to adopt at the turn of...
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