The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chișinău_pogrom_(1903)" id="mwmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chișinău pogrom (1903)">Kishinev pogrom</a> in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishinev" id="mwnA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kishinev">Kishinev</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessarabia" id="mwnQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bessarabia">Bessarabia</a>) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine#Ottoman_period" id="mwng" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="History of Palestine">Palestine</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world" id="mwnw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Western world">Western world</a>.