FACT CHECK · LAND AND MIGRATION: WHO CAME FROM WHERE, AND 1948
Claim: Only a few hundred Jews lived there around 1840
FALSETHE ANSWER
Peel 1937: some 4,000 Jews in Safad and 3,000 in Tiberias about a century before; not more than 12,000 in all Palestine in 1845. A small minority, yes, but thousands.
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