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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to U.S. President Donald Trump over the phone on March 21, 2019, thanking him for the United States recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Netanyahu talks with Pollard, looks forward to his arrival in Israel

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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...
Convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard was freed from his parole conditions by the United States on Nov. 20, 2020. Credit: Justice for Jonathan Pollard.

Pollard on making aliyah: ‘God willing, very soon!’

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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...
A view of the Galilee Medical Center located in Nahariya, Israel. Source: Galilee Medical Center.

French ‘olim’ help fill needed health-care gaps in northern Israel

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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,...
Simcha Brodsky, a musician from New York headed to Jerusalem, represents the 16,000th new immigrant of 2020. Photo by Yonit Schiller.

90 North Americans arrive in Israel during Israeli National Immigration Week

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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...
New immigrants from North America arrive in Israel on a 'Group Aliyah Flight' sponsored by Nefesh B'Nefesh. August 14, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Thinking of moving abroad if your candidate loses?

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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

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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

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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...
A total of 140 new arrivals from France landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Aug. 3, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

Aliyah to Israel on the rise, despite COVID-19 and bureaucracy bottlenecks

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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...
From left: First Pvt. Ayala Tova Hangshing; Minister of Aliyah and Absorption Penina Tamanu-Shata; Shavei Israel’s Coordinator for Bnei Menashe Tzvi Khaute; and Shavei Israel’s chairman and founder Michael Freund. Credit: Courtesy Shavei Israel.

Group of 700-plus individuals from India slated to make aliyah

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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...
New immigrants from North America arrive on a special " Aliyah Flight" on behalf of Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben Gurion airport in central Israel on August 14, 2019. Photo by Flash90

You don’t have to be a Zionist to make aliyah

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When I made aliyah, I was not a Zionist. It’s a strange fact to share as most people know me as a proud American-Jew-become-Israeli who blogs about Israel, makes videos about Israel, wrote a book about...