The Jewish people, who had been massacred in Russia and many other regions of Europe, especially in Eastern Europe, began their mass exodus to Ot-toman territories. The Palestine area was under the sovereignty of the Ottoman State, being one of the places where the Jews wanted to settle. The main intenti-on of this paper is to present the request to establish Jewish communities from Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century on Ottoman territory, a process facilitated by the Ottoman consulate in Constanța (Köstence, as it appears in the documents of the time). Furthermore, the study presents the institutions of the Ottoman and Romanian State involved in this process, based on the official do-cuments in the custody belonging to the Devlet Arşivleri Başkanlığı Osmanlı Arşivi, the Hariciye Nezareti register (Foreign Affairs Offıce). This article outlines the role and contribution of the Ottomans in settling Jewish refugees in Ottoman territory at the end of the 19th century and discusses Laurence Oliphant’s visit to Palestine between 1879 and 1882, the initiatives regarding the Jewish refugee se-ttlement project in the area, the response of the Ottoman State. To put in another way, this essay presents non-Muslim citizens who lived in Ottoman territories, in the environment of political crisis of the Ottoman State, during the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909) and his response, formulated in May 1880.