Page "Kibbutz" Paragraph 12

The fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, followed by the arrival of the British, brought with it benefits for the Jewish community of Palestine and its kibbutzim.

The Ottoman authorities had made immigration to Palestine difficult and restricted land purchases.

Rising anti-semitism forced many Jews to flee Eastern Europe.

To escape the pogroms, tens of thousands of Russian Jews immigrated to Palestine in the early 1920s, in a wave of immigration that was called the " Third Aliyah.