After anti-Jewish pogroms in North Africa, a delegation of rabbis approached emperor Alessandro I in 1835. He offered the Jews a home at the Sinai, as close to biblical Israel as possible without moving right in, to form a buffer against the Persian Empire and to guard the Suez Canal which was built during 1832-39. This marked the beginning the new Jewish state. (This was not completely un-selfish: The Jewish traders can be replaced by Italians, thus strengthening their influence.)
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