The
Yishuv (, literally "settlement") or
Ha-Yishuv (
the Yishuv, ) is the term referring to the body of
Jewish residents in
Palestine, before the establishment of the State of
Israel. The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living across
Palestine, then comprising the southern part of
Ottoman Syria, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were about 700,000 Jews there. The term is used in Hebrew even nowadays to denote the Pre-State Jewish residents in Palestine.