Posts Tagged: Israel Aliyah
The Diverse Faces Aboard the 53rd Nefesh B’Nefesh Aliyah Flight
JNS.org - “We will be a part of something so big—it is unthinkable to me,” Tracie Beavers said three-quarters of the way through a nearly 12-hour...
Tomorrow I Make Aliyah
JNS.org - Tomorrow, I make aliyah. The next day, I become an Israeli citizen. And the day after that, I begin my life in Israel. Nervous? Definitely....
Israel’s Absorption Ministry Plans for Influx of French Jews
Immigration from France is on the rise: in the first half of 2015, approximately 5,100 French Jews immigrated to Israel – 25% more than in...
When the Homeland Becomes Home: Israel’s Senior Immigrants
JNS.org - Like other Jews his age, Gerry Wine remembers the day Israel was born—May 14, 1948—and the United Nations vote the previous November that opened...
Number of Eastern European Jews Making Aliyah Sees Dramatic Increase Over Past Year
The Jewish Agency for Israel said in a new report that immigration to Israel (Aliyah) from Western Europe in the first quarter of 2015 was...
Why I Am Worried About the Israeli Elections
Lately I find myself singing the Kingston Trio's Worried Song: "It takes a worried man to sing a worried song, I'm worried now, but I won't...
Why Jews Shouldn’t Necessarily Flee to Israel
For a people who wandered the globe for centuries in exile, the question of what constitutes a safe haven or just a temporary reprieve from...
Netanyahu Urges ‘Massive Immigration’ of European Jews to Israel After Copenhagen Shooting
JNS.org - Following the terrorist shooting that killed 37-year-old Jewish volunteer security guard Dan Uzan at a synagogue in Copenhagen, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Amid Attacks, Christian-Jewish Aid Group Exploring Ways to Help French Jews Make Aliyah
JNS.org - In the wake of Islamist terror attacks that killed a combined 16 people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket...
Jewish Immigration to Israel Reaches 10 Year High in 2014
JNS.org - Jewish immigration to Israel reached a 10-year high in 2014 with the arrival of 26,500 new immigrants. According to year-end figures from The...
Israel’s Defiant Economy
The assumption that Israel's economic growth depends on peace accords, and that Israel's economy cannot withstand BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) pressure, are inconsistent with...
Christian-Jewish Group Plans Major Push for Immigration to Israel
JNS.org - The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) plans to substantially increase its efforts to increase immigration to Israel, especially from countries...
You Are Israel’s True ‘Start Up Nation’
Israel is the Start-Up Nation. This is what we are constantly told. Despite continuous wars, Israel has more high-tech start-ups per capita than any other...
U.S. High School Graduate Makes Aliyah; Plans to Join IDF
BEN GURION AIRPORT - Among the 228 new immigrants from the United States and Canada that arrived to Israel on Tuesday morning, were seven doctors...
