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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
French Jews have been abandoning the country in increasing numbers, with more than 2,300 making aliyah to Israel between January and October of 2018.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
For some two decades, the IFCJ has been helping Jews make Aliyah.
The country with the largest number of olim (immigrants to Israel) in 2018 was Russia.
Several of the players also represented Israel in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, where Team Israel made it to the quarterfinal.
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The Netanyahu cabinet on Sunday debated an initiative to allow the Aliyah of first-degree relatives of the Falash Mura, who are not entitled to immigrate under the Law of Return.
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The Falash Mura are members of the Beta Israel community in Ethiopia and Eritrea who converted to Christianity over the past two centuries.
“My hospital is still the best in Venezuela, but I don’t know for how long, we don’t have medicines anymore, even antibiotics.”
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In a 2011 interview, Roseanne said she would like to run for Prime Minister of Israel.
Liberman estimated it would take approximately $365 million annually to facilitate such a mass aliyah over the next 10 years. “Bringing in those numbers will upgrade Israel to another level, with a prowess we never imagined.”
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In June, Ramah national director Rabbi Mitchell Cohen circulated an email vowing: “Ramah camps have not engaged—and will not engage—in any way with IfNotNow as an organization.”
Within the last decade, noted Rabbi Fass, the trend in aliyah has been toward younger, single olim, ages 18 to 30, who are not necessarily coming to Israel for ideological or religious reasons.
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The Bnei Menashe claim descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, who were sent into exile by the Assyrian Empire more than 2,700 years ago.
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We are destroying the terrorist tunnels, and in contrast, we are building these tunnels here which shorten distances.
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Sharansky will continue his service training and supporting the Jewish Agency shlichim (emissaries).
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While young people were preparing for their flights to Israel, they were asked about certain issues and policies, with their answers recorded.
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The new bill seeks to permit a first-degree relative or guardian to review the adoption file of family members who have disappeared, been kidnapped or whose fate is unknown.
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The 90-year-old from Oregon was honored at a May 30 event, where he was introduced as a "hero of Israel and the Jewish people."
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Venice Chief Rabbi Rabbi Bahbout disregarded the status quo and declared that he would convert people from all over Italy in his court, including those who had been rejected in the courts in Milan and Rome.
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"Lone new immigrants should not be discriminated against, they should receive the full rights that are granted to new immigrant families and couples."
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This is the fifth year of the Bonei Zion Awards, which recognizes outstanding Anglo Olim who have made huge contributions in their fields.
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On their first date, 45 years ago, the main topic of conversation for Yisrael and later his wife, Bella, was how much they would both like to live in Israel.
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A 2013 study showed that one out of every four Birthright participants marries another Birthright participant.
Prior to Aliya in 1986 Sharansky was best known for his time in Soviet prisons after his arrest in 1977.
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Nesya has been planning to move to Israel for some time, as she feels a responsibility to live in Israel and strengthen the country through her Aliyah.
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This year’s Nefesh B’Nefesh Mega Event, March 11 in New York City, will provide an all-encompassing slate of resources for retirees, young professionals, families and singles looking to make Aliyah, including a Medical Professionals Seminar
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In the late 1990s, Mina identified her former student on TV, when he stood next to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, as head of Russia's security service.
The current state of the shekel-dollar relationship could be the new “normal” that local businesses will have no choice but to adjust to.
“Many Israelis, as well as Jews living all over the world with relatives in Israel, will be able to use these archives to find documentation and pictures of their loved ones."
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Physicians in the United States rack up some $200,000 in debt by the time they complete their studies, and they will never be able to pay it off while earning a military salary in Israel.
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The group hails from the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, on the border with Burma, which is home to the largest concentration of Bnei Menashe in India.
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Between 2000 and 2013, some 1,658 immigrants committed suicide.
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“The State of Israel was, and will always be, the home of every Jew: Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, secular, traditional, Ashkenazi, Sephardi. Jews. We are all one people, and Israel is dear to all of us.”
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'According to the Halacha, only the person who cooks the food must be Jewish; the other workers do not have to be Jewish.'
Our shared goal is to bring 500,000 new residents to the Galilee and one million new residents to the Negev, and there is where our main efforts reside.
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Grants will be awarded to Olim looking to create change, enter the start-up ecosystem, impact Israeli society or engage the Olim community.
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37% of UK Jews conceal their Jewish identity in public and 17% don't feel welcome in their own country.
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"The Jewish Agency, which has welcomed millions of Jews home to Israel, is proud to play a part in easing Neda’s integration into her country of refuge."
“These ties are translated into viable collaboration and cross-country cooperation."
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The trips inspire men to connect deeply with their Jewish heritage, and transform themselves, their families – and ultimately their communities and the wider world.
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Speaking to the passengers as well as their second, third, and fourth generation descendants, the President said, 'I am fortunate as President of the State of Israel to record with you and your families that the State of Israel, and the flag of Israel, are obvious facts.'
Rabbi Fass expressed his hope that the matter will be resolved, and that a healing process will begin to develop between the Chief Rabbinate and Rabbinic leaders across the world.
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'Most of the Jews in the United States, even those who come to Temple once in fifty years, or those that don’t come at all, are not Reform, and the Reform movement does not represent them.'
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More than 10% of the French Jewish community has immigrated to Israel since the year 2000, half in the past five years alone.
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Speaker Edelstein was invited to give the speech exactly 30 years after he had completed a three-year sentence in a Soviet labor camp for his Zionist activities.
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In the 1990s, European countries complained about Israeli citizens with Israeli passports who were engaged in criminal activity, which affected Israel's visa agreements.
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The discussion, then as now, revolved around annexation versus a two-state solution, although at the time the most these Israeli ministers could imagine was a Palestinian autonomy under Israeli rule (a solution that's to the right of today's Likud).
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There's much misinformation, misconception and ignorance in the American Jewish community about Israel, which Yishai did a lot to dispel over at that Beverly Hills event.
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The Bnei Menashe are descendants of the tribe of Manasseh, one of the Ten Lost Tribes exiled from the Land of Israel more than 2,700 years ago by the Assyrian empire.
Each village priest would recite ancient prayers, such as “Miriam’s Song,” echoing the Biblical account of the Exodus and its aftermath.
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Participants were invited to choose from more than 50 sessions, workshops and one-on-one meetings on topics ranging from home buying and education to professional licensing and health insurance.
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The 102 new immigrants all hail from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, which borders Burma and Bangladesh and is home to the second-largest concentration of Bnei Menashe in India.
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Immigration to Tel Aviv has come to be characterized by youth: approximately 9,500 of the new immigrants are between the ages of 18 and 35, joining a third of Tel Aviv's population that is of the same age group.
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'My very relationship with my husband was in question suddenly. The children would yell, 'Why did you bring us here?' My own emotional state was so fragile. Everything was falling apart, including our marriage.'
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According to the chief rabbis, the plan is to create a system whereby the conversions done by rabbis who meet the chief rabbinate criteria would be approved.
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166 Ethiopian Israelis have been recruited to the police force over the past two years, and today 613 police officers are Ethiopian.
Thousands of Israeli Ethiopians marked the Day of Sigd in Jerusalem this week. It's an echo of the First Temple era.
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Last year the WZO established 140 new Hebrew language centers, most of them in France, Argentina, and the UK.
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The committee began its investigations in 1995, following bloody clashes in Passover of 1994, between the followers of a Yemenite Rabbi and police.
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Strangely enough, the Knesset legislation known as the Aliyah Day Act 5776-2016 states that on the 7th of Cheshvan the country will celebrate the Israelites' entrance into the Land of Israel on the 10th of Nissan.
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The flight included a diverse mix of people from 22 US states and one Canadian province, including 24 families, 78 children and 10 medical professionals.
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The fact that the first two of these organizations is completely Orthodox, while the third varies from one campus to another has irked many, in Israel and abroad.
233 North American new Olim arrived home to Israel this morning.
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Some of the funds are designated for encouraging entrepreneurship among new immigrants from France, Belgium, and Ukraine.
The new Jerusalem Lone Soldiers' Center officially opened on Michael Levin's 10th Yartzheit.
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The report on eradicating racism against Israelis of Ethiopian origin is 170 pages long and includes 52 recommendations intended to help correct institutionalized and societal racism.
Most of this year’s applicants are from the area of Paris, but some have also emigrated from Marseilles or northern France.
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For every shekel the state invests in preventing delinquency or rehabilitating a juvenile delinquent, it will save 5-10 shekels in the future by avoiding the delinquent's imprisonment, compensating those hurt by the delinquent, etc.
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"Reform Jews in the US don’t have a single mikvah. All of a sudden they need a mikvah over here?"
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The 223 newcomers include Jews from 17 US states and two Canadian provinces, former servicemen from three different US Armed Forces units, families of all sizes, and young professionals.
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Sharansky: “This is the single greatest expression of the Jewish people’s solidarity with French Jewry.”
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"It's time to expose the truth behind this shocking episode, an episode that is a black stain on the history of the State of Israel."
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When a group of about 7,000 of these Indian Jews arrived in Israel six years ago, local hospitals have taken upon themselves to usher them into the wonderful medical advantages of modern times.
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"Currently, French nationals who are looking to emigrate have many options, so if we do not offer them at least what other countries are offering – we'll be facing stiff competition."
Sofa Landver, an immigrant from Russia, has returned to the office she headed between 2009 and 2015.
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Each time MK Neguise, or foreign governments, or righteous lobbyists ask for another quota of Ethiopian immigrants who are Christian, not Jewish, they promise this is the last time.
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Neguise told the delegation members, pointing out Israel's advanced capabilities in the fields of irrigation, desalination, solar energy, medicine, education and tourism.
Many of these new Israelis expressed amazement at how the day is celebrated in Israel in contrast with their native countries.
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Born and raised in an Ethiopian village, Mekonen was a 12-year-old shepherd when his father died suddenly, less than a day before his family was to move to Israel.
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We are Jews, we are Zionists, we are happy — get used to it!
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Irregular lone soldiers experience financial difficulties, sometimes to the point where their bank accounts are seized once they are released from the army.
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The group from Raydah included the community’s rabbi, who brought a Torah scroll believed to be between 500 and 600 years old.
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Immigration from Ukraine and France has decreased because the immigrants' needs are not being sufficiently met, particularly in the fields of employment and education.
B'nei Akiva is helping to prepare the remaining Jews in Ethiopia to come home to Israel over the next five years
Over 100 Ukrainian Jews fled war-torn Ukraine and arrived in Israel.
The money will also go towards encouraging aliyah, provide preparatory aliyah seminars, and finding full-time employment for new immigrants prior to their move to Israel.
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Believed to have been founded by Iraqi or Persian Jewish merchants, Kaifeng's Jewish community built a large and beautiful synagogue in 1163.
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"Those who call us will not commit suicide."
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"We could have reached 15,000 [French] olim last year, not only 8,000," Former Minister of Immigration and Absorption Sofa Landver (Yisrael Beitenu) said.
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Out of the 180,000 calls the hotline centers field each year, some 10% are from new immigrants.
A large majority of Israelis are willing to support an increase in benefits to help new immigrants succeed.
Rav Bezalel Rudinsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Reuven and Darchei Noam of Monsey, has joined the American-style community in Ramat Givat Zeev.
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Raphael Werner, chairman of the Flemish Forum of Jewish Organizations, estimated that within 20 years Antwerp would have an Arab mayor.
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According to the survey’s findings, as many as 43% of French Jews are planning to make Aliyah to Israel.
Jews make up less than 1 percent of the population, but more than 50 percent of all attacks in 2014 were directed against them.
Liberman has a plan to fight assimilation which will strengthen the Diaspora and increase Aliyah
“The earthquake struck early in the morning and buildings shook violently,” said a member of the Bnei Menashe community.
Anti-Semitism chased Jews to Israel from Ukraine and France, but not from the rest of Europe and North America.
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has offered a cash payment to Jews from Ukraine to move to Israel. The Jewish Agency criticizes the program.
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Judge Daphne Barak-Erez wrote, adding: "Let us not replace the question of 'Who is a Jew' with the question of 'What is a Jewish community.'"
July 17, 2026 
