Tag: Aliyah
5,000 Ethiopian immigrants reunited with family in Israel
A group of 130 Ethiopian immigrants arrived in Israel on Wednesday, bringing to 5,000 the number of new olim from the African country over the last two and half years, the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency announced.
The latest...
A 75-year-old makes ‘aliyah’ in time for Israel’s 75th anniversary year
In a way, Daniel Goldschmiedt and the modern State of Israel have grown up together. They both recently turned 75. Their Jewish identity is central to their lives. And now that Daniel and his...
More than 100 Ethiopians land in Israel, their new home
A total of 111 new immigrants (olim) from Ethiopia landed in Tel Aviv on May 9, joining some 95,000 of their countrymen who have immigrated to Israel.
Mark Wilf, chairman of the board of governors...
Caught in violence in northeast India, Bnei Menashe face ‘appalling’ conditions
Caught in the middle of violence between Meitei Hindus and Kuki Christians, the Bnei Menashe, who claim descent from a “lost” biblical tribe and whom Israel accepts upon conversion, have been displaced from their...
One year into the war, the displacement, physically and emotionally, of Ukrainian Jews
PART TWO OF TWO STORIES
The term “displaced persons” doesn’t always capture adequately how much of a geographical impact wars have. Diana Bukman, who is now half a world away from a colleague in Ukraine...
90 Ukrainian Jewish refugees come home to Israel
Ninety Ukrainian Jewish refugees arrived in Israel on Wednesday to begin a new chapter of their lives, on a chartered flight made possible by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ).
The group joined...
Over 300 attend aliyah events across North America
Jerusalem consistently ranks as the No. 1 destination of choice among olim from the United States and Canada.
Since Nefesh B’Nefesh, a nonprofit organization that facilitates aliyah from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, began operations in 2002, approximately 17,000 olim from North...
Russian aliyah spikes in 2022
More than four times as many persons made aliyah from Russia in the first 10 months of 2022 than in all of last year, according to Ofek Israeli—The National Aliyah Promotion Company.
A total of 32,494 Russian...
Celebrating 20 years of resettling North American Jewry into careers, homes and lives in...
Twenty years ago, Jews in North America weren’t exactly getting in line to relocate to Israel. Statistics on aliyah in 2002 found that fewer than 1,000 Jews relocated to the Jewish homeland that year.
Unlike Jews from...
‘Look forward,’ says lone soldier on 20th-anniversary ‘aliyah’ flight to Israel
With lots of hugs and plenty of tears—and a mix of joy and anticipation, and excitement of the unknown—225 Jews from North America said goodbye to family and friends and left John F. Kennedy...