Sheshbazzar's aliyah (those claiming that Zerubbabel and Sheshbazzar were the same person, associate Sheshbazzar's aliyah with Zerubbabel's Aliyah), had occurred near after Cyrus's Decree, in 538 BCE. Approximately 1,000 young Jews made aliya in what became known as Sheshbazzar's Aliyah, out of the notion to redeem the land of Israel from its ruins and to re-establish the holy temple on the Temple Mount. This aliyah was named after its leader Sheshbazzar because most scholars have agreed that he is a descendant of the house of Jeconiah, king of Judah.