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Unfortunately, the Board of Governors turned the appointment into a leftwing politically partisan demonstration.
By Israel Hayom
Russian’s seemingly positive response may be an “indication that they are open to the idea of the agency continuing its activities in the country.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel argues that the Jewish Agency has been working within the bounds of Russian law ever since it officially began operating in the country.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Russian Ministry of Justice believes that the Jewish Agency “violated Russian law in its work.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The process will be continued “until a suitable candidate is found,” says the Agency, after none of the current candidates was able to secure enough votes for nomination.
By Yori Yalon
Despite the impressive list of candidates—the majority of which are women—there is reportedly no front runner yet
More than 100 Israeli children living near the Gaza Strip attend camp run by The Jewish Agency’s Fund for Victims of Terror, which is supported by donations from world Jewry.
“The ‘March of the Living’ connects between those who learned about the Holocaust firsthand and those who did not."
The ban on kosher slaughter was initially legislated in 2017 and came into effect at the beginning of September.
De nouveaux immigrants français sont arrivés aujourd'hui à l'aéroport Ben Gurion en Israël.
Gabai and Livni agreed to appoint Livni as opposition leader, while letting Gabai keep his hopes up for the Prime Minister's position.
By JoeSettler
The American Jewish leadership don't realize yet how completely manipulated they were by Prime Minister Netanyahu.
By JNi.Media
Sharansky will continue his service training and supporting the Jewish Agency shlichim (emissaries).
By Zvika Klein
An inside look at 'IfNotNow' trying to influence the younger generation of American Jewry and bring 'the end of the occupation.'
Prior to Aliya in 1986 Sharansky was best known for his time in Soviet prisons after his arrest in 1977.
By JNi.Media
Both of Netanyahu's decisions caused a storm and created a rift with Diaspora Jews, most emphatically in the US.
By JNi.Media
Senior Jewish Agency officials are saying Sharansky is livid over the government's decision to cancel the Kotel plan.
By JNi.Media
'Time is running out. Fewer than 400,000 survivors are alive today.'
By JNi.Media
Approximately 200 Jews were murdered in anti-Semitic attacks around the globe since Israel’s establishment in 1948.
By JNi.Media
Canada's former Justice Minister, said the current level of anti-Semitism 'is the highest in 40 years, and includes the rejection of Israel's right to exist at all, and the portrayal of Israel as a monster and enemy of mankind.'
The Global School Twinning Network was awarded the Jerusalem Unity Prize for its work in promoting unity between worldwide Jewish communities and Israeli society.
By JNi.Media
"Reform Jews in the US don’t have a single mikvah. All of a sudden they need a mikvah over here?"
By JNi.Media
Last week, a Knesset committee debated a bill proposed by two ultra-Orthodox coalition partners determining that use of public mikvahs will be conducted strictly according to halakha.
By JNi.Media
"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.
By JNi.Media
During the day, an exhibition titled "Stripes, Stars and Magen David" will be launched in the Knesset's Chagall Hall.
B'nei Akiva is helping to prepare the remaining Jews in Ethiopia to come home to Israel over the next five years
A large majority of Israelis are willing to support an increase in benefits to help new immigrants succeed.
Arab MK Ayman Odeh on Thursday refused to enter a meeting with Jews in New York because the same office building also houses Zionist organizations.
New immigrants came to Israel from 97 countries.
More than 200 immigrants from France ware scheduled to land in Israel aboard a special Aliyah flight next Monday evening. They will be greeted by Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Ze'ev Elkin and Jewish Agency chairman Israel Natan Sharansky. The number of 3,000 immigrants from France this summer is expected to reach 3,000, compared […]
Minister Ze'ev Elkin will welcome 221 new immigrants from the United States and Canada at Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday., one year after Operation Protective Edge. The flight, organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, the Jewish Agency and JNF-USA, will carry 32 families and 53 singles from […]
Israelis working as emissaries for B'nei Akiva outside the country should be allowed to vote in next month's elections, World B'nei Akiva director Rabbi Noam Perl wrote Elections Committee chairman Judge Salim Jubran Wednesday. "The fact that the emissaries overseas work for Zionism and for the State of Israel cannot participate in the elections is […]
Aliyah was up by 32 percent compared with 2013.
More than 1,000 high school seniors from 25 Jewish schools across France will light the Hanukkah menorah together on Thursday in Jerusalem. Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky who said that the French Jewish students' arrival in Israel is "a massive expression of solidarity that reflects the warm and unique connection between the French Jewish community […]
Hundreds of Jewish leaders from around the world who are part of the Jewish Agency for Israel Board of Governor will convene in Ashkelon, one of Hamas favorite targets for rockets and missiles, next week. The Board had been set to meet in Mexico as part of its annual rotation amongst the world's Jewish communities, […]
By JTA
Sharansky admits that non-practicing Jews likely to assimilate, says Israel "only way" to keep connection to Judaism
Aliyah from France Up 312% in January and February Compared to 2013
By JTA
The Jewish Agency said it would offer immediate emergency assistance to Ukraine’s Jewish community and will help secure the country’s Jewish institutions. Saturday evening’s announcement by Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky came hours after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev and the Ukrainian parliament announced new presidential elections for late May. Violent protests led to […]
Official statistics on aliyah to Israel from the United States have been corrected to show that there was only a tiny change for the worse in the past year from the number of new immigrants in 2012. The Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption and the Jewish Agency issued a report in late December that […]
By JTA
Some 120 Jewish leaders from Israel and around the world convened for a two-day summit on formulating a plan to strengthen the connection between Israel and Diaspora Jewish communities. Run in conjunction with the Jewish Agency for Israel, the summit on Wednesday and Thursday will focus, in part, on strengthening Jewish identity among Jewish young […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Three sukkahs, two in the United States and one in Israel, will share the title of "Number One Sukkah" as the winners of the Jewish Agency for Israel's first Sukkathon competition. The three winners are the sukkah at Terrace at the Glen, an assisted living facility in Queensbury, New York; the Schachter family sukkah in […]
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has appointed the first woman as one of the members of the State Committee for the Appointment of Rabbinical Court Judges. Dr. Rachel Levmore, director of the Project for the Prevention of Agunot and Get-Refusal of the International Young Israel Movement and the Jewish Agency, was named to the panel based […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky handed Getnet Amare, the mayor of Gondar, Ethiopia, the keys to the school that had prepared thousands of Jewish Ethiopian children for their subsequent immigration to Israel through education in math, physics, computers and English. In a ceremony on Monday, the Jewish Agency donated all the school buildings and equipment […]
By JTA
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky on Monday turned over the keys to the Jewish school of Gondar, Ethiopia, to the town’s mayor as the final flight of Ethiopian immigrants prepares to leave for Israel.. The Jewish Agency Monday’s funded and maintained the school, where approximately 2,500 Ethiopian children studied while awaiting their immigration to Israel. […]
By Paula Stern
Three incidents have once again reinforced what I have known all my life.
By JTA
Radical Islamists have endangered the lives of almost 90 Jews still in Yemen. On Wednesday, 17 of them were secretly airlifted to Israel, 63 years after the ‘Magic Carpet’ brought over 49,000 Yemini Jews.
The goal of a new Birthright initiative is to nearly double the number of participants, and to provide financial incentives for young high-tech professionals to make Aliyah
Hundreds of Jewish and Zionist leaders from across the globe are meeting at the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency in Kiev, Ukraine, the first time they have met outside of Israel. Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky said at the opening plenary Sunday that since the fall of the […]
If it is the sole solution to women's rights at the Kotel, an egalitarian section at the Kotel will ultimately make things harder for Orthodox feminists who are trying to assert their rights within a Halachic framework.
The UJA Federation of New York’s William Rosenwald Mission landed in Israel Sunday with 200 leaders who will be celebrating the country’s 65th anniversary as a modern state on Tuesday. The delegation will examine how the New York community can help improve Israel’s quality of life, especially for children in distress, Holocaust survivors and new […]
Sharansky says the Western Wall is long enough for women to have their own minyan and Torah reading. The Women of the Wall leader accepts the compromise. Will the Rabbinate big enough to agree?
Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky opened a new Jewish campus in Munich this week and declared, “The Jewish community in Germany is indeed unique” but faces the challenge of assimilation. The campus will house the Jewish Agency’s Munich office and the European Janusz Korczak Academy, a Jewish Agency-supported school that integrates traditional Jewish learning with […]
Only if sanctions are backed by "credible military threat" will there be a chance that Iran will peacefully halt its nuclear program, Netanyahu said.
On the day of the ceremony, the entrance to the Jewish Agency building in the city was blocked by snow.
The flight was organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel, pursuant to the July government decision to increase the rate of Ethiopian Aliyah.
A ceremony welcoming the new immigrants will take place at Ben Gurion Airport Terminal 1 on Monday, 29.10.12 at 15:00. In attendance will be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Chairman of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors, James S. Tisch, Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky, Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Sofa Landver, […]
In an effort to nudge New York Jewish students and young professionals considering aliyah to take the plunge, Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel will be hosting a special conference at the UJA-Federation of new York in Manhattan on October 21.
According to police, the shooter was drunk. According to a report in Walla, the shooter was fired from his job at the hotel kitchen a few days ago.
The emergency funding is provided through the Jewish Agency’s Fund for the Victims of Terror and will be transferred before Rosh Hashanah.
By JTA
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has given $1 million each to the Jewish Agency and Chabad to help them guard against anti-Semitic and terrorist attacks. The money will go to fund infrastructure upgrades and security measures for Jewish communities around the world that are unable to fund security expenses on their own. "There […]
By Tzvi Fishman
Make no mistake. I am not criticizing any of the dedicated directors or employees of the Jewish Agency. Certainly, I have nothing but praise for Mr. Sharansky. But the Jewish Agency is obsolete. It is destined to failure so long as the Rabbis, and Roshei Yeshivot, and parents, and the heads of Jewish organizations in the Diaspora don’t urge their students and children and members to go on aliyah.
It’s human nature to hide our heads in the sand. That may be because we are mostly optimistic. We believe everything will be all right even when we know we are taking a chance.
By JTA
Israel's government has budgeted more than $10 million to provide college scholarships and Hebrew language schools to new immigrants. The Cabinet decision Sunday to continue to support financially the Immigrant Absorption Ministry Student Authority is "ensuring the continuation of its joint projects with the Jewish Agency which, due to budgetary constraints, faced uncertain futures," according […]
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
Some 5,000 French Jews participated in an aliyah fair in Paris. The fair, organized and run by the Jewish Agency, took place on the Sunday of Francois Hollande's election as their new president, beating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy—the Jewish community's favorite. A recent poll found that 26 percent of those surveyed said they have considered emigrating due to French anti-Semitism.
By JTA
An Israeli teenager won the International Bible Contest in Jerusalem, with a New York teen finishing second. Elhanan Bloch was the best among the 56 competitors from 24 countries who competed Thursday, ahead of Akiva Abramovitz of Brooklyn. The Bible competition is held annually on Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day. Bloch also took the religious […]
Those who are subjected to emotional suffering tend to be kept out of society's line of sight. All the more so when society is either the cause of the suffering or can alleviate it and does not do so.
Jewish Agency Chairman applauds appointment of Jack Lew by President Obama.
By Sam Sokol
The Jewish Agency for Israel has called on local residents of the city of Beit Shemesh in central Israel to submit proposals for “promoting dialogue and cooperation between Haredi [ultra-orthodox] communities and other communities in Beit Shemesh".
July 3, 2026 
