Alija (disambiguation)

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Alija (also Alijah ) stands for:

  • Alijah in Judaism has been the name given to the return of Jews to Eretz Israel since their exile in Babylon (586-539 BC)
  • Alija Bet , the code name for the immigration of thousands of Jews from Europe into the British Mandate Palestine from 1934 until the founding of Israel in 1948
  • Alijah laTorah , reading a passage from the Torah in the synagogue
  • Child and Youth Alijah , a Jewish organization that tried to bring as many children and young people as possible from the German Reich to safety, especially to Palestine, during the Nazi era
  • Alija-Sketch , Israeli TV-Sketch
  • Jisra'el ba-Alija , political party in Israel

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