A New Look at Immigration of Jews From Yemen to Mandatory Palestine

The article focuses new light on immigration from Yemen to Mandatory Palestine in a broad context. Figures clearly indicate that the magnitude of immigration from Yemen was impressive, both in absolute and relative numbers, in all comparable parameters. The article offers some explanations for both the preference given to Yemeni Jews in immigration to Palestine and the claims that they did not get their appropriate just share in immigration certificates. This was due, in part, to the complex mechanism of regulating Jewish immigration to Palestine at that time and the multi-faceted considerations involved in distributing the immigration certificates. It is written from a Palestine perspective, and does not deal with Yemeni immigration policy and its impact on the composition of the immigration flow.