The
Old Yishuv (,
ha-Yishuv ha-Yashan) were the Jewish communities of the southern
Syrian provinces (Palestine) in the
Ottoman period, up to the onset of
Zionist aliyah and the consolidation of the
New Yishuv by the end of World War I. As opposed to the later Zionist aliyah and the New Yishuv, which came into being with the
First Aliyah (of 1882) and was more based on a socialist and/or secular ideology emphasizing labor and self-sufficiency, the Old Yishuv, whose members had continuously resided in or had come to
Eretz Yisrael in the earlier centuries, were largely ultra-orthodox Jews dependent on external donations (
Halukka) for living.