Aleppo family claims to be Jewish, calls on Israel to help them Officials at the Jewish Agency told Army Radio, which broadcast a recording of the call for help, that they had doubts about the family’s Jewishness.
Natan Sharansky agrees to stay an extra year as Jewish Agency chief Sharansky had said in September that he would not stay on past June, despite a request from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
9 Venezuelan converts can move to Israel under Knesset compromise The Interior Ministry had claimed their engagement in Jewish communal life was not sufficient and denied their request to make aliyah.
Israel Christian-funded philanthropy claims a fifth of Jewish immigration in ’16, irking main aliyah body