Before the 1948 war, Jews living in British Mandate Palestine were usually described and described themselves as Palestinian Jews. Some Palestinian Jewish families, notably in Jerusalem, Safed (Tzefat) and Hebron had been there for hundreds of years; we cannot be sure they did not date to Biblical times. Others had arrived in the late 19th or 20th centuries as part of what Jews called the yishuv, the settlement movement. The Jewish National Fund, part of the Zionist movement, raised money worldwide to buy land in Palestine for these settlers.After the partition of Palestine in 1948, there was a wave of ethnic cleansing (a term coined by the Serbs during the Yugoslav wars during the 1990s). That is, invading Arab armies drove all the Jews out of the West Bank and Gaza, while Jewish forces d