אֲסִיר צִיּוֹן

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Person imprisoned for his Zionism

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A Jew who was imprisoned in the Diaspora because of his desire to immigrate to the Land of Israel.

(“Zion, will you not seek the welfare of your prisoners / those who seek your peace, and they are the remainder of your flock / from the sea and the east and from the north and Yemen peace / far and near, take from all your past.” – Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, “Zion, Will You Not Ask,” and: “And all the people increase in lamentations. And at the end of the lamentations, the exceptional one begins, and thus did Mahar”i Segal, and says, ‘Zion, will you not seek the welfare of your prisoners, etc.” – (Book of Maharil (Customs), Laws of the Seventeenth of Tammuz and the Ninth of Av)