Posts Tagged: Israel Aliyah
French Immigration to Israel Quadruples in First Quarter of 2014
JNS.org - New figures released by the Jewish Agency for Israel on Monday show that French immigration to Israel has quadrupled in the first...
Where is Israel’s Pro-Active Aliyah Policy?
A pro-active aliyah policy was Israel's most effective engine of growth and posture of deterrence. It catapulted the Jewish state from 650,000 Jews in 1948...
Israel’s Population Nears 8.2 Million as Country Celebrates 66th Birthday
JNS.org - Days before Israel's 66th Independence Day, the Israeli population reached 8.18 million people, according to a report by the country's Central Bureau...
Aliyah Up 6.7 Percent in Early 2014
JNS.org - January 2014 saw a 6.7-percent rise in the number of new immigrants to Israel compared to the same month in 2013, data...
The Jewish Exodus From France”Ž
On January 26, possibly for the first time ever since the end of World War Two, explicit anti-semitic slogans were shouted during a large scale...
Aliyah on the Rise: 19,200 New Immigrants Arrive in Israel in 2013
Approximately 19,200 immigrants arrived in Israel in 2013, according to data compiled by the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israel Ministry of Immigration and...
Knesset Votes to Bring 900 Indian ‘Lost Jews’ to Israel
JNS.org - The Israeli Knesset unanimously voted Sunday to bring 899 "lost Jews" from India to Israel at the end of this year. The...
Ethiopian Aliyah Ends With Last 450 Arrivals
JNS.org - A group of 450 Ethiopian immigrants arrived in Israel on Wednesday, marking the end of Operation Kanfei Yonah (Wings of a Dove). Since...
New Olim Receive Identity Documents in Jerusalem
JNS.org - JERUSALEM - Some 40 hours after landing in Israel last week, many of the new olim who arrived on the 50th flight chartered...
Aliyah Flight Brings 331 Immigrants, 125 Future IDF Soldiers to Israel
JNS.org - At a pre-departure ceremony on Monday in the El Al Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Rabbi Yehoshua...
The Final Ethiopian Aliyah
I recently joined the Jewish Federation of North America to bear witness to the final chapter of the Ethiopian aliyah. It was a complex, thirty-plus...
Nearly 1,000 Children Making Aliyah to Israel in 2013
Nefesh B'Nefesh, the first ever 'Children Aliyah' flight, landed safely at Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday morning, July 23. On the El Al flight were 106 children...
Maccabiah Athletes to be Offered Incentives to Move to Israel
JNS.0rg - Around 9,000 Jewish athletes from 79 countries will take part in the 19th quadrennial Maccabiah Games that will get underway later this...
Ethiopian Aliyah Enters Final Stages
Approximately 240 new immigrants were set to arrive at Israel's David Ben-Gurion airport on Monday as part of a final effort to bring the remainder...
