Tag: Aliyah
More than 20,000 people immigrated to Israel in 2020, despite the pandemic
Global pandemic notwithstanding, more than 20,000 Jews from 70 countries made aliyah over the course of 2020, reported the Jewish Agency.
Most of the immigrants arrived from Russia, Ukraine, the United States and France, according to the...
Netanyahu talks with Pollard, looks forward to his arrival in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked on the phone on Tuesday with Jonathan Pollard, a former intelligence analyst who served three decades in prison for spying for and giving classified information to Israel, and...
Pollard on making aliyah: ‘God willing, very soon!’
Five years after his release on parole and two days after his travel restrictions ended, Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard released a statement on his next steps, tempering expectations of a rapid relocation to Israel.
“Thirty...
French ‘olim’ help fill needed health-care gaps in northern Israel
As a wave of Islamist terror directed at churches and priests raises religious tensions in France, a special group of recent French immigrants is relieved to be settling into their new life in Nahariya,...
90 North Americans arrive in Israel during Israeli National Immigration Week
Israel welcomed its 16,000th new immigrant of the year, Simcha Brodsky, who made aliyah with Nefesh B’Nefesh along with 90 other new olim arriving at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Tuesday as Israel celebrates National Immigration Week, in...
Thinking of moving abroad if your candidate loses?
According to one Jewish news website, a Canadian immigration lawyer’s business is booming thanks to the U.S. presidential election. While talk of moving to the Great White North if the candidate you don’t support wins is...
India’s Bnei Menashe Jewish Mma & Kickboxing Champion Set To Make Aliyah
Obed Hrangchal, 26, is an Indian MMA and Kickboxing champion who has already won two Gold, seven Silver and two Bronze national medals in Wushu, Kickboxing, Muay Thai and Karate.
But what makes Hrangchal’s story...
Aliyah to Israel on the rise, despite COVID-19 and bureaucracy bottlenecks
Israel is seeing a spike in aliyah (immigration to Israel) this year, with a higher number of people interested in moving to the Jewish state compared to previous years. But with COVID-19 wreaking havoc across the...
Aliyah to Israel on the rise, despite COVID-19 and bureaucracy bottlenecks
Israel is seeing a spike in aliyah (immigration to Israel) this year, with a higher number of people interested in moving to the Jewish state compared to previous years. But with COVID-19 wreaking havoc across the...
Group of 700-plus individuals from India slated to make aliyah
Israel’s Minister of Aliyah and Absorption Knesset member Penina Tamanu-Shata announced this month that in cooperation with the Interior Ministry, she is moving ahead with plans for the aliyah of 722 members of the Bnei Menashe community of...