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Iron Dome anti-missile batteries installed in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon to protect lives and homes after the Israeli targeted killing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad field commander Baha Abu Al-Atta on Nov. 12, 2019. Photo by Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90.

Jewish Agency provides emergency funds to families hit by rockets from Gaza

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In the wake of today’s rocket fire on Israel, the Jewish Agency for Israel put its emergency operations into gear, providing assistance to 6,500 new immigrants in absorption centers and 5,000 seniors in assisted-living...
Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg (left) of the Central Orthodox Synagogue of Berlin observes Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog light a memorial candle in memory of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, Nov. 7, 2019. Photo by Eliana Rudee.

At Kristallnacht memorial service in Berlin, Jewish leaders sound alarm on anti-Semitism

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It’s been 81 years since Kristallnacht (“The Night of Broken Glass”), when Nazis torched synagogues, vandalized thousands of Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and killed nearly 100 Jews on the night of Nov. 9-10,...
Jewish Agency for Israel chairman Isaac Herzog speaks during the Public Forum Conference on Nov. 15, 2018. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Jewish Agency to rebrand as a global hub for the Jewish world

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At the board of governors meeting that began on Sunday in Jerusalem and runs until Oct. 29, the Jewish Agency announced its new strategic plan, which includes rebranding the 90-year-old organization as a hub...
New immigrants experience their first High Holidays in Jerusalem as official residents of Israel, Oct. 6, 2019. Credit: The Jewish Agency for Israel.

100 ‘olim’ from 45 countries experience pre-Yom Kippur prayer at Western Wall

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Jewish Agency for Israel chair Isaac Herzog led 100 new olim (“new immigrants“) from 45 countries to selichot services—special prayers said by Jews worldwide during the days before and between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—at the excavated tunnels...
Avinoam Bar-Yosef. Credit: Screenshot.

Jewish People Policy Institute founder to step down in 2020

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Avinoam Bar-Yosef, the founding director of the independent think tank Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), has announced that he will retire from the organization effective October 2020. Announcing his departure a year in advance to...
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog speaks during the Public Forum Conference on Nov. 15, 2018. Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Herzog calls Belgian ritual-slaughter ban ‘infringement’ of religious freedom

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Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog sent a letter on Monday to the president of the Belgian regional parliament of Wallonia in an appeal to lift the ban on kosher ritual slaughter without stunning in...
Evan Gershater, the 60,000th immigrant to Israel brought by Nefesh B’Nefesh, is given an Israeli identity card by Minister of Aliyah and Integration Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yoav Galant, and Nefesh B’Nefesh co-founders Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart. Photo by Shahar Azran.

60,000th new immigrant to Israel on 60th Nefesh charter flight

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A total of 242 new olim from North America landed on Tuesday at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Nefesh B’Nefesh’s 60th specially chartered EL AL flight, with the 60,000th new immigrant onboard. They came from a variety of...
Nechama Miller and her family arrive in Israel, Aug. 13, 2019. Photo by Ellie Rudee.

The daughters of two prominent American Jewish leaders make ‘aliyah’

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Lily Daroff and Nechama Miller, daughters of prominent leaders of the American Jewish community, were among 242 other North Americans who landed as new permanent arrivals in Israel on Tuesday, part of the latest...
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog speaks at the March of the Living in Poland on May 2, 2019. Credit: Jewish Agency for Israel.

Isaac Herzog: From the Labor Party to ‘prime minister of the Jews’

The ORT Jewish school in Buenos Aires was looking festive: Israeli flags hung in every corner, the classrooms were pristine and the walls were decorated. The party, held several months ago, was in honor...
Jewish Agency for Israel chairman Isaac Herzog visits volunteers working with children in Durban, South Africa, as part of an international “tikkun olam” (“repair the world”) program, Aug. 1, 2019. Credit: Courtesy.

Jewish Agency chair Herzog visits volunteers helping children in South Africa

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Jewish Agency for Israel chair Isaac Herzog visited Durban, South Africa, on Thursday, meeting with visiting agency volunteers who are assisting disadvantaged people as part of tikkun olam initiatives to “repair the world.” He told a group...