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עמוד:116
Aliyah a to Israel From the Prayer Book Sound the great shofar for our freedom And gather us from the four corners of the earth . Blessed are You , God , who gathers the dispersed of His People Israel . ( Excerpt from the Amidah prayer ) 1 Explain this prayer in your own words . Once Upon a Time ... The gates to the Land of Israel were not always open to Jews . From the end of the 19 century , groups of Jews began to settle in the Land of Israel . They arrived in waves ( the First Aliyah , the Second , the Third , etc . ) from many countries such as Russia , Poland , Romania , and Germany . In order to live in Israel , a permit was required from the ruling government , i . e ., from the Turkish government until 1917 , and then from the British government until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 . Permits were not granted to everyone , so some Jews had to enter secretly through unofficial channels . Sometimes they succeeded ; sometimes they failed . A famous example of this is the story of the ship Exodus . * In 1947 , more than 4 , 500 survivors of the Shoah set sail from Europe to Haifa on the illegal immigration ship , Exodus . The British were still ruling over Israel and they refused to allow the passengers to come ashore in Israel . After a desperate struggle , the survivors were forced to sail back to the German port of Hamburg – to the country that , just a few years before , had tried to kill them and had mercilessly destroyed many of their families . Most of the passengers were forced to get off the boat in Germany where they were held in detention facilities for about a year , after which most returned successfully to Israel . Exodus , the second book of the Torah , is a Latin word used to indicate that the book is about the Jews’ exodus from Egypt . The Hebrew name for the book is Shemot .
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