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By the end of the 19th century there were voices in the newly formed Zionist Movement to settle Jews in Cyprus as a policy, as it was regarded as a stepping-stone to settlement in Eretz-Israel. When the Third Zionist Congress met in Basel, Aug. 15-18, 1899, the question of colonization in Cyprus was brought up by Davis Trietsch, who had held a preliminary conference to consider the proposal. He was not allowed to proceed with the question in open discussion, however as the great majority of the members opposed the proposal. Although refused by the council, Trietsch persisted, convincing two dozen Romanian JewsThis is a list of Romanians who are or were Jewish or of Jewish ancestry. Academics

Aaron Aaronsohn, botanist
J. J. Benjamin, historian
Nicolae Cajal, virologist and Jewish community leader
Ştefan Cazimir, literary critic


v.tr. to Cyprus. (34) Twenty-eight additional Romanian families followed these and received assistance from the Jewish Colonization AssociationThe Jewish Colonization Association (JCA, in Yiddish ICA) was created on September 11, 1891 by the Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural colonies on lands
..... Click the link for more information.. These settlers established farms at Margo, and at Asheriton. In 1902, Theodore Herzl introduced the idea of establishing Cyprus as the 'Jewish Homeland'. This idea was presented in a pamphlet to the Parliamentary committee on alien immigration in London, bearing the title "The Problem of Jewish Immigration to England and the United StatesUnited States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.
..... Click the link for more information. Solved by Furthering the Jewish Colonization of Cyprus." (35)

Evidence and remnants of Jewish presence on the Island go back to pre-Christian times, displaying both good and bad times as the island changed hands and its populace subjected to various rulers. But it was in the time of the British rule of the region that the affiliation between the Jewish people and Cyprus became more intensive. Cyprus was taken over by the British long before they were in control of Palestine. They were a colonial Power, with a policy of interests--yet they were attentive to human plight, allowing Jewish settlement on the island. When the situation in Palestine intensified in the 1940s, they opened the detention camps for Jewish refugeesIn the course of history, Jewish populations have been expelled or ostracised by various local authorities and have sought asylum from antisemitism numerous times. The articles History of antisemitism and Timeline of antisemitism contain more detailed chronology of anti-Jewish


The Jewish presence in Cyprus throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries await scholarly documentation pending unification of or other political solution in Cyprus and the opening of the military zones for such studies.

In the meantime, Israelis have a special corner in their hearts for Cyprus and Cypriots: the peaceful island embracing all those who found their way to it, and the friendly Cypriots who have extended a welcoming hand to distressed people through the ages.

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Very interesting indeed...

[Linichka]

"In the meantime, Israelis have a special corner in their hearts for Cyprus and Cypriots: the peaceful island embracing all those who found their way to it, and the friendly Cypriots who have extended a welcoming hand to distressed people through the ages. "

Except, of course, for the Holocaust survivors whose ships en route to then-Palestine were seized by the Brits, their occupants forced into detention camps near Famagusta. Really charming: they'd survived Hitler's hell, only to be placed in cages by their liberators.

But then, Jews don't hold that against Cypriots, who had nothing to do with it.