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1903
The «El Arish» commission examines the possibility of a Jewish settlement on the peninsula Sinai.
Earthquake in Jerusalem
.04 Pogroms in Kischinew start in April. Dozens of Jews are murdered. The pogroms increase the Russian emigration to Palestine. A group of 37 orphans is brought by BILU founder Israel Belkind to Palestine in December.
British Government suggests the «Uganda Scheme» to Theodor Herzl, rejected by the Sixth Zionist Congress.
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