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Homeward bound: Why South African Jews are making aliyah to Israel now - opinion

Recently, the Jewish Agency introduced an aliyah project aimed specifically at South African couples aged 60+ with family already in Israel, who cannot afford to purchase a home here.

South African Jews, aged 60 and over, recently arrived via a Jewish Agency aliyah project, meet at Telfed - South African Zionist Federation in Raanana.
JEWISH AGENCY EMBRACE: Jewish Agency Chairman Maj.-Gen. (res.) Doron Almog; Board of Governors Chair Mark Wilf; and Jewish Agency CEO Yehuda Setton  embrace the Horn brothers, two of whom were here held hostage for hundreds of days.

From war to renewal: The Jewish Agency responds to crisis and builds the future

Aliyah Ministry closes 2025 with 21,900 new immigrants, growth from France and UK AI

Aliyah Ministry closes 2025 with 21,900 new immigrants, growth from France and UK

ISRAELIS LIGHT candles the day after after two gunmen shot and killed people gathered on Australia's Bondi beach for the start of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, in Jerusalem on December 15, 2025.

Jerusalem memorial ceremony for Bondi Beach terror victims in tandem with ceremony in Sydney


Jewish Agency’s Youth Futures is providing a brighter future, against all odds

The Jewish Agency’s Youth Futures program is now expanding to provide much-needed support to at-risk youths, as the war has amplified many of their challenges and traumatized children across Israel.

 ORA, A YOUTH Futures mentor, with Haim from Ofakim.

A year of aliyah: Tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Israel since October 7 massacre

There were 31,000 immigrants in 2024 alone, from approximately 100 different countries.

Olim from France who arrived in Israel during the war. Illustrative

Grapevine December 15, 2024: Changing of the guard

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

SHRAGA BIRAN presents his book to President Isaac Herzog.

Nefesh B’Nefesh to present outstanding Anglo Olim with Annual Bonei Zion Prize

LIVE: Sylvan Adams Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize to be awarded to English-speaking Olim who have significantly contributed to the State of Israel.


Special committee created to commemorate Diaspora Jewish victims of antisemitic attacks

Based on figures from the Jewish Agency and the WZO, 155 non-Israeli Jews have been murdered abroad between 1958 and 2024.

 Police at a hostages rally in Central Park, March 24, 2024.

The last Afghan Jew lands in Israel in surprise family visit

Simantov, 65, speaks very little Hebrew, though he is fluent in Persian, and is expected to need considerable assistance to adjust to life in Israel.

 Zablon Simantov, 2005.

Grapevine October 25, 2024: With a little help from our friends

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 THE OR LAMISHPACHOT choir sings at an ICEJ gathering last Sunday at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem.

For the first time: The European Bible Quiz, with hundreds of teens participating


Jewish population increases by 100,000 this year, to 15.8 million worldwide

Nearly half of the global Jewish population, 7.3 million, live in Israel while 8.3 million live in the Diaspora. 

Olim from North America arrive on a special " Aliyah flight" to the Ben Gurion airport

Running in the rain: Israeli teens join US summer camp

About 110 Israeli teens, together with 10 specially trained staff, went to the Pocono mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania as part of Macheneh Yahad, a Jewish Agency partnership program.

 Take us out to the ball game! Some 110 Israeli teens enjoy a respite from the war at an American Jewish summer camp.