Thank you William Zambrano for the article you brought to our attention. As I was reading the article it stated that the last time there was a Venus Transmit...Venus between the Sun and the Earth... was in 1882. That date caught my attention and I was trying to remember why-then it hit me-is that the year the migration back to Israel started. So, I did research and found out yes, that was the year the current Israel was birthed. There has got to be a connection. There just has to be. I am not sure what the planet Venus represents...I'm sure someone can tell us. Please doves....any insight into this?
Here are some of the links and articles I found:
There has been a continual Jewish presence in the land of Israel since the time of King David. The scattering of the Jewish people into the nations of the world in 70 and 135 A.D. resulted in the Jewish population of the land shrinking at times, and they were always under the control of an occupying power. In the 1800s a return began that ultimately resulted in the founding of the nation in 1948. There are seven recognized periods of aliyah from 1892 to 1948. Each of these returns played an instrumental part in repopulating the land and the subsequent rebirth of Israel.
First Aliyah: 1882-1904
The first aliyah to the land of Israel resulted in the return of 25,000 people. This group was composed of mostly Eastern Europeans who came individually or in small groups.
Bukharan Jews began to immigrate to Israel in 1868. In 1892 they founded the Bukharan Quarter of Jerusalem, which they named Rehovot.
In 1881 Yemen was making life miserable for the Jewish people in that nation. The harsh conditions of Jewish life and a rising messianic fervor propelled the Jewish community to begin immigrating to Israel. By 1914 about 3,000 (approximately 10 percent) of Yemen's Jewish community made aliyah.
The first settlement in Israel established by pioneers from outside the country took place in 1882. Ten Russian Jews founded the Rishon Le-Zion moshav. This settlement's population grew to about a hundred after the first year, when Bilu settlers joined the moshav. Bilu, the Hebrew initials for "House of Jacob, come ye and let us go," was a return-to-Israel movement.
http://www.foi.org/IMG/robinsn.htm
http://www.shalomoutreachministries.com/articles/011turning_homeword.htm
This site talks about current Israel’s history -Israel’s record- again starting in 1882. Please check out.
http://www.adl.org/Israel/Record/milestones.asp
This site is very good and gives detail as to how Israel was established.