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Among Israel's most historically significant founding settlements, Rishon LeZion was established in 1882 by a group of Eastern European Jewish pioneers — members of the Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) movement — making it one of the very first modern Zionist agricultural colonies in Ottoman Palestine, pre-dating even Petah Tikva's refounding by some accounts, and firmly part of the First Aliyah wave of immigration. Its name, drawn from Isaiah 41:27, was chosen with the deliberate symbolism of new ...