...... and if the world is not complicated enough. Many of the early settlers to Palestine were 100% ethnic Russians, who converted to Jewish faith in the 1700's, during the reign of Catherine the Great. They are referred to as Subbotniks, but there were actually three groups. Many moved to Palestine to escape religious persecution and became the early Zionists. Others remain in Russia.
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