A year since the last planeload of Falash Mura immigrants landed in Israel, advocates are hoping a new effort to review the aliyah eligibility of 3,000 Ethiopians will reopen the gates to mass Ethiopian immigration. More ▸
A new immigrant from Ukraine currently living in an Israeli absorption center won Maccabiah gold in the 100-meter race. More ▸
Israel has offered extra immigrant benefits to Maccabiah Games participant who make aliyah. More ▸
From the Jewish Agency: THE JEWISH AGENCY HOSTS OLIM FAREWELL RECEPTIONS, ESTIMATES 15% INCREASE IN ALIYAH FOR 2009 FROM NORTH AMERICA The Jewish Agency for Israel hosted Aliyah farewell receptions in New York Washington DC, Boston, and San Francisco for members of the community who will be immigrating to Israel this summer; farewell receptions will… More ▸
A secret operation to take imperiled Jews out of Yemen could be in jeopardy after news of the effort was made public. More ▸
Israel’s Cabinet approved a program to encourage aliyah from the former Soviet Union. More ▸
A young woman on a Birthright Israel trip hurriedly became an Israeli citizen to receive an emergency liver transplant. More ▸
Oren Massey of Berkeley came to the Hazon Jewish food conference looking for comrades interested in building land-based Jewish communities. David Kantor came from Pasadena to reinvigorate his “green” commitment. Mark Fishman, a longtime butcher in Kansas City, came to take part in a turkey shechita, or kosher slaughter. Falynn Schmidt of San Francisco is… More ▸
Some 16,500 Jews from around the world have made aliyah in 2008, a 16 percent drop from the previous year. The 6,100 immigrants from the former Soviet Union accounts for 35 percent of the olim. Some 3,250 of the immigrants came from Western Europe, or 20 percent, with 3,150 from the United States and Canada,… More ▸
Police investigating a bus accident that killed 24 Russian tourists traveling to Eilat reportedly will look at driver error and mechanical failure as the likely causes. The bus plunged down a 45-foot embankment Tuesday afternoon to the bottom of a riverbank north of Eilat after flipping over several times. Some 33 people were injured, many… More ▸
