If you wish to call it ‘herding’ them, God did that over 4,000 years ago, from what is currently called Iraq into the Holy Land.
If you are referring to modern, 1948 Israel, it is their homeland, from the time of Abraham. Jews were not ‘herded’ into Israel. They were however, ‘herded’ out of Europe into concentration and extermination camps by the Germans in WWII. Perhaps guilt at not preventing this led the UN to establish a Jewish homeland so that there would never be another extermination attempt made.
Since 1948 through today, Jewish people from all over the world are “herded” to Israel, both by government force and by fear.
Nobody has ever explained to me why, amidst all the tribes in the world, Europeans and Middle Easterners always tend to blame the “jews” for all human dysfunction.