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31: 1075:. "In Safed, too, the movement gathered strength during the autumn of 1665. The reports about the utter destruction, in 1662 , of the Jewish settlement there seem greatly exaggerated, and the conclusions based on them are false. ... Rosanes' account of the destruction of the Safed community is based on a misunderstanding of his sources; the community declined in numbers but continued to exist." 876:
Joel Rappel, History of Eretz Israel from Prehistory up to 1882 (1980), Vol.2, p.531. 'In 1662 Sabbathai Sevi arrived to Jerusalem. It was the time when the Jewish settlements of Galilee were destroyed by the Druze: Tiberias was completely desolate and only a few of former Safed residents had
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in early eighteenth century. Altshuler however attributes the destruction of Tiberias in 1660 to an earthquake. The destruction could have also been a combination of both events.
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Barnay, Y. The Jews in Palestine in the eighteenth century: under the patronage of the Istanbul Committee of Officials for Palestine (University of Alabama Press 1992)
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relatively quickly, not becoming entirely abandoned, remaining an important Jewish center in the Galilee.
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by the Druze resulted in abandonment of the city by its Jewish community, until it was rebuilt by
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of Damascus. Under Zahir's patronage, Jewish families were encouraged to settle in
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Sephardic Contributions to the Development of the State of Israel, Shelomo Alfassá
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and signed an agreement with the neighboring Bedouin tribes to prevent looting.
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and urging craftsmen to move there. In 1624, when the Sultan recognized
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The Jews of Asia: especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
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as Lord of Arabistan (from Aleppo to the borders of Egypt), the
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rebuilt the city walls and laid the groundwork for a textile (
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expanded along the southern Mediterranean coast under sultan
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fled to the Ottoman provinces, settling at first in
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Old Yishuv
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Jewish
Land of Israel
Mamluk
Ottoman
Nachmanides Aliya
Alhambra decree (1492)
Manuel I decree (1496)
Hebron
Safed
Revival of Tiberias (1563)
Sack of Tiberias (1660)
Plunder of Safed (June 1834)
Hebron massacre (August 1834)
Safed attack (1838)
Jerusalem expansion
Moshavot establishment
(d.1270)
Joseph Saragossi
Obadiah MiBartenura
Abraham ben Eliezer Halevi
Levi ibn Habib
Jacob Berab
Joseph Nasi
Moses Galante
Moses ibn Habib
Yehuda he-Hasid
Haim Abulafia
Menachem Mendel

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