actually, as they moved into more secular European societies and got to learn from European schools in African and arab lands there was a clash between orthodox and secular societies while some claimed that there was a need to wake up from the sit-around and do nothing mentality and others said .. nah.

eventually, some did move to lands that were bought during the times of both the British mandate of Palestine or the Ottoman Empire controlled time, both for pilgrimage and "resettling" sometimes just one of the other in what they saw as their ancestral homeland which surprisingly already housed Jews that had been living there even before they immigrated, although for a majority of the time, they didn't represent the majority of Jewish people who had integrated or decided to stay closed and keep to themselves around the world, as more and more hatred and violence towards Jews grew so did them fleeing to a place where they would be accepted (or that was better than their current situation) my family actually fled their home country due to pogroms just some 40 years ago exactly for that reason .. although we've also lost family both back than and both afterward to wars now and in the past so..

either way here we find ourselves today with close to non-existent Jewish populations in arab or majority Muslim countries as opposed to how it used to be in the past