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New immigrants to Israel hold a placard at Ben-Gurion International Airport reading, “The People of Israel Live,” Oct. 19, 2023. Photo by Yonit Schiller.

New ‘olim’ show up to support their new homeland in time of war

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As rockets from Gaza continue to rain down across Israel following the carnage of the Hamas attack on the western Negev that began on Oct. 7, and foreign nations including the United States consider...
New Israelis from North America celebrate their arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport, Aug. 16, 2023. Photo by Kobi Natan/TPS.

Arrival of 215 immigrants sparks dancing at Ben-Gurion Airport

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A planeload of 215 immigrants from the U.S. and Canada landed at Ben-Gurion Airport on Wednesday, sparking emotional family reunions and even dancing in one of the terminals. “I don’t think I’ve ever been happier...
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...

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...
From left: Nefesh B'Nefesh co-founder and chairman Tony Gelbart, Israel’s Minister of Aliyah and Integration Pnina Tamano-Shata, and Nefesh B'Nefesh co-founder and executive director Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, May 23, 2022. Photo by Naga Malasa.

Israel’s Minister of Aliyah touts recent Diaspora immigration

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Israel’s Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata heralded the growing number of Diaspora Jews who have come to the Jewish state in recent years. Yet if she had it her way, the influx is...
Ukrainian Jewish immigrants arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Feb. 20, 2022. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Immigration to Israel smashes 20-year record

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Some 38,000 new immigrants will celebrate their first Independence Day as Israeli citizens this year, according to figures released by the Jewish Agency on Sunday. The figure marks a two-decade immigration record. The data also...
New immigrants Charley and Shaked Smith, and their baby son, Adar, on April 27, 2022. Photo by Yonit Schiller.

Nefesh B’Nefesh welcomes 74,000th new immigrant ahead of Israel’s 74th year

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Nefesh B’Nefesh, in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and JNF-USA, welcomed its 74,000th new immigrant on Wednesday. Charley Smith, 34, made aliyah from Florida and reunited...
During the program, the 325 participants were able to meet with representatives of medical facilities in Israel to discuss job opportunities, get their paperwork filed and notarized, and expedite their medical-licensing process, March 2022. Photo by Nir Arieli.

Nefesh B’Nefesh ‘Medex’ gathering eases path for medical professionals to make aliyah

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Medical professionals planning to move to Israel gathered this week for the MedEx aliyah event held at the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe in New Jersey and sponsored by Nefesh B’Nefesh, with cooperation from the Jewish Agency...
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...