Backing up the argument: Jews first came to the land of Israel as a nation around 1300 BCE. This dates back 1800-1900 years before the Muslim faith existed. In the second Jewish exile from the land of Israel, Jews were exiled by the Romans from being an autonomous ruling kingdom in Israel in the year 70 CE. This means that 600 years before Islam was even born, Jews were already yearning to come back to their land. In the seventh century, the Arabs invaded the land of Israel. This was a military invasion accompanied by a deliberate policy of uprooting Jews from their land, or turning them into dhimmi. Though Arab presence in the land of Israel dates back to the seventh century Arab military invasion, many Arabs who lived in British Palestine in the twentieth century were immigrants from the Ottoman Empire attracted by the higher wages and better health conditions offered by the new economic infrastructure created by the Jews. In the Jewish Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times. This intense focus shows how crucial this land is to the Jewish people. While Jerusalem later gained importance to Muslims, it was not mentioned by name even once in the Koran. In the year 70 CE, after living in Israel for over 1000 years, the vast majority of Jews were exiled, but not all of them. Throughout the 2000 years of exile, there was a continuous presence of Jewish communities, mainly in Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias and Hebron. ( See background )