“This predicted gathering has three phases: the gathering of Israel to the land of Zion, the American hemisphere; the return of the Ten Tribes from the north countries; and the reestablishment of the Jews in Palestine which had been long ago predicted by the prophets …”

Ezra Taft Benson – 2 May 1976, Ensign Magazine “Speaking Today: A message to Judah from Joseph” (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, December 1976), 70.