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Ethiopian olim arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, July 12, 2023. Credit: The Jewish Agency for Israel.

5,000 Ethiopian immigrants reunited with family in Israel

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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...
Daniel and Tzerel Goldschmiedt arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport in February 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

A 75-year-old makes ‘aliyah’ in time for Israel’s 75th anniversary year

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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...
Mark Wilf, chairman of the board of governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel (right) greets new immigrants from Ethiopia at Ben-Gurion International Airport, May 9, 2023. Photo by Maxim Dinshtein.

More than 100 Ethiopians land in Israel, their new home

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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...
Map of designated area in northeast India where the Bnei Menashe live. Source: Google Maps.

Caught in violence in northeast India, Bnei Menashe face ‘appalling’ conditions

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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...
Wave of Ukrainian refugees. Credit: rfranca/Shutterstock.

One year into the war, the displacement, physically and emotionally, of Ukrainian Jews

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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...
Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer (center) and IFCJ President Yael Eckstein (right) welcome Ukrainian olim at Ben-Gurion Airport, Feb. 8, 2023. Photo by Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/IFCJ.

90 Ukrainian Jewish refugees come home to Israel

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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...
Nefesh B'Nefesh Executive Vice President Zev Gershinsky (left) and Pini Glinkewitz, director of the Aliyah and Integration Authority in the Jerusalem Municipality (right), with a potential immigrant. Photo by Shahar Azran.

Over 300 attend aliyah events across North America

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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...
Ukrainian Jews arrive on aliyah at Ben-Gurion Airport, Feb. 20, 2022. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Russian aliyah spikes in 2022

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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...

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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...
Nefesh B’Nefesh co-founders Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart; executive vice president Zev Gershinsky; and Israeli Consul General in New York Ambassador Asaf Zamir with 40 future Lone Soldiers at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Photo by Shahar Azran.

‘Look forward,’ says lone soldier on 20th-anniversary ‘aliyah’ flight to Israel

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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...