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Jewish Journal
April 12, 2018
From 2012 and 2015, Israel lost more people to the United States (18,000) than it gained through American aliyah (13,000), according to the Department of Homeland Security. This prompted Israel's Immigrant Absorption Ministry to launch the campaign “Returning at 70,” to draw Israeli expats back home.
Haaretz
March 24, 2018
Miriam Peretz, who lost two of her sons in combat, will receive the Israel Prize for her contribution to “strengthening the Jewish-Israeli spirit. ... But she received the award for her work on behalf of immigrant absorption, in which she had been engaged for decades, since she herself had arrived in the country.
Haaretz
March 22, 2018
Another issue facing the would-be embassy is the fate of some 450 elderly immigrants living in the former Diplomat Hotel adjacent to the consulate. The hotel is supposed to become the main building of the embassy compound, but the Immigrant Absorption Ministry's lease doesn't run out until 2020.
JNS.org
March 16, 2018
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called him a trailblazer, saying he paved the way for others by showing them that it was possible to break through from the periphery to the heart of Israeli society. Education Minister Naftali Bennett, whose ministry oversees the Israel Prize committee, personally arrived atÃâà...
Haaretz
March 13, 2018
If Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver – a member of Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party – voted against a controversial, ... Sources around Netanyahu and the Israeli political pundits are saying the prime minister seemed to have decided that an early election was in his best interest, couldÃâà...
Haaretz
March 13, 2018
Following its founding in 1929, the Jewish Agency became the central organization facilitating immigration to Israel. ... In addition, some documents may be the work of various government ministries, including the Immigrant Absorption Ministry and the Interior Ministry, in addition to the Prime Minister's OfficeÃâà...
Haaretz
March 5, 2018
Moreover, according to an internal Education Ministry document, there were no female candidates at all for three of the 10 prizes awarded so far. The document, which ... But winners still haven't been announced in three fields – life's work, immigrant absorption, and agriculture and settlement. In the HebrewÃâà...
Palestine News Network
March 1, 2018
Prepared in partnership with the Israeli Ministry for Immigrant Absorption, the report revealed that 7,224 Russian Jews and 7,182 Ukrainian Jews made the decision to “make aliyah” by moving to Israel last year. Aliyah is regarded as “one of the most basic tenets of Zionism.” A total of 28,598 JewishÃâà...
UNIAN
February 27, 2018
For the first time in more than a decade, Russia and Ukraine provided Israel with most of its immigrants in a calendar year. ... immigrants from the Ukraine, according to an updated report of immigration to Israel, or aliyah, by a partnering organization of the Ministry for Immigrant Absorption, JTA reported.
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