That first return to Israel, led by the biblical figure, Ezra, is known as the 'Return to Zion,' a name taken from Psalms 126, 'When God returns the returners to Zion (שיבת ציון), we will be like dreamers.'
"The Jewish people lived in Israel in biblical times, but after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem, many of those Jews were forcibly resettled by the Babylonians in what is today Iraq.
Babylon itself fell to the Persian Empire about 50 years later, and soon, some Jews made their way back to Israel.
That first return to Israel, led by the biblical figure, Ezra, is known as the 'Return to Zion,' a name taken from Psalms 126, 'When God returns the returners to Zion (שיבת ציון), we will be like dreamers.'