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On January 21st, 1882, the blueprint for the “First Aliyah”, the immigration of Diaspora Jews back to the Holy Land, is laid out along with the formation of the BILU group during a meeting at the home of Israel Belkind in Kharkiv, Ukraine. BILU, from the biblical verse “Beit Yaakov Lechu VenilCha” or “House of Jacob Let Us Go” is a group founded by a few dozen students who were responding to the violent nonstop pogroms that swept through Czarist Russia.
Read more: This Day In History: Organization That Sparked The First Aliyah Is Created