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Travelers at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport on Jan. 4, 2022. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

Israel’s ever-changing COVID policies wreak havoc on Jewish American travelers

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Israel’s ever-changing coronavirus travel policies during the spread of the Omicron variant have wreaked havoc on Israelis, Jewish Americans and the Diaspora alike. Jerusalem barred travel from Dec. 22 to Jan. 7 to and from...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog (center), and Nefesh B’Nefesh co-founders Tony Gelbart (left) and Rabbi Yehoshua Fass cut the ribbon at the dedication ceremony of a new aliyah campus in Jerusalem for the organization, Nov. 16, 2021. Credit: Courtesy.

Nefesh B’Nefesh inaugurates campus in Jerusalem to better serve new immigrants

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The aliyah-facilitating organization Nefesh B’Nefesh inaugurated a new, state-of-the art campus in Jerusalem at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday. Among those present included Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Minister of Aliyah and Integration Pnina Tamano-Shata, Ashkenazi...
The arrival of French Jews who made aliyah, at Ben Gurion International Airport on July 10, 2017. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90

‘Feeling part of the story’: Having made the move, ‘olim’ and Israel mark Aliyah...

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By the time newly minted Israeli Shira Denise Kilemnic Mac and her husband, Abraham, along with their two youngsters, stepped off the plane in Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion International Airport on July 22, her reputation...
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem sponsored aliyah flights for 105 SELA students from former Soviet republics who are coming to study in Israel, Oct. 13, 2021. Credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

International Christian Embassy Jerusalem helps bring 105 youths to Israel

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Israel is marking its annual Yom HaAliyah (“Aliyah Day”) with an entire week of incoming flights filled with new Jewish immigrants with the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) actively involved in this effort by sponsoring flights...
A total of 235 new immigrants from the Bnei Menashe community in India landed in Israel on Oct. 13, 2021. Credit: Laura Ben David, courtesy of Shavei Israel.

Bnei Menashe group of 235 from India lands at Ben-Gurion on Yom HaAliyah

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A total of 235 new immigrants from the Bnei Menashe community in India landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Wednesday as part of the Yom HaAliyah national celebration on Oct. 12-13. Hailing from Manipur in...
Twelve future lone soldiers from North America landed on a Nefesh B’Nefesh Group Aliyah Flight to serve in the Israel Defense Forces and make their homes in the Jewish state, Aug. 10, 2021. Photo by Yonit Schiller.

Future lone soldiers arrive with Nefesh B’Nefesh during summer ‘aliyah’ peak

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Twelve future lone soldiers were among new immigrants who landed this week on a Nefesh B’Nefesh Group Aliyah Flight, in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren...
Children from France arrive in Israel as part of a group aliyah flight on July 21, 2021. Photo by Noga Malsa.

160 new immigrants from France arrive in Israel amid surge in ‘aliyah’

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A group of 160 new French immigrants to Israel arrived at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Wednesday aboard a special aliyah flight from Paris organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel, and Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration. The new arrivals...
Michal Cotler-Wunsh, head of the new Nefesh B’Nefesh Institute for Aliyah Policy and Strategy, greets arrivals to Israel. Credit: Nefesh B'Nefesh.

Nefesh B’Nefesh launches new institute for aliyah and strategy

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It’s been three years since Hanna and Shamshy Schlager traded their home in New York for a new one in Modi’in, Israel. It’s been a good three years, they’ll tell you, a time of growth,...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaking with U.S. President Joe Biden on June 13, 2021. Credit: Ariel Zandberg/GPO.

In first phone call, Bennett thanks Putin for Russia’s role in ‘regional stability’

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for the role that his country is playing in maintaining regional stability, his office said in a statement. Monday’s phone call was the...
New immigrants from North America arrive in Israel on a 'Group Aliyah Flight' sponsored by Nefesh B'Nefesh. August 14, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

North American immigration to Israel spikes after ‘year of COVID’

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Some 5,000 new immigrants from the United States and Canada are scheduled to immigrate to Israel by the end of 2021, according to new data published by the Nefesh B’Nefesh organization in conjunction with...