Yishuvn.

1918 Round Table VIII. 321 The Jewish Yishub, or settlement in Palestine.

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 1130/1 This new Palestinian Yishub (settlement), strengthened in the early years of the present century by a number of young men and women who went to Palestine with the ideal of working as labourers on its soil, became the basis of the political success which Zionism achieved during the World War.

1940 Contemp. Jewish Rec. III. 599 The Yishub has made available over £P200,000 for emergency purposes.

1940 A. Ulitzur Two Decades of Keren Hayesod ii. 40 From the beginning of the Third Aliyah until the end of September, 1940..the Yishuv grew by about 432,000 persons.

1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. i. xii. 130 Let the Yishuv, the Diaspora and the whole world know what Bevin, Attlee and their henchmen are preparing for us.

1962 Observer 20 May 25/5 The British Zionists with whom I worked—infected, no doubt, by the free life of the Yishuv in Palestine—did not give me an inkling of what goes on in the mind of an orthodox Jew.

1970 I. Sieff Mem. vi. 107 These Jews of the old Yishuv (meaning settlement) were usually advanced in years before they left their country of origin.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Nov. 1288/5 The extent and scale of the massacres tended to be underestimated for a while by Jews in the West.., by the Yishuv in Palestine, and even by Jews in Europe themselves.