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Jewish Agency Shlichim Strengthen Communities Worldwide and Spread Hanukkah’s Global Glow

With a record deployment of emissaries, the Jewish Agency reinforces Jewish identity, communal resilience, and global solidarity at a critical moment.

Jewish Agency Chairman Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog and CEO Yehuda Setton with Jewish Agency shlichim
L to R: Jewish Agency Leadership: Mark Wilf, Chairman of the Board of Governors  Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog, Chairman of the Executive; Bruce Sholk, Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee, and Yehuda Setton, CEO and Director General.

At The Jewish Agency Board Meeting, ‘we act to impact’ becomes a blueprint for Israel’s recovery

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at an event held in partnership with Nefesh B’Nefesh. November 6, 2025.

Israel considering tax exemption for new immigrants during first two years of residency

Jewish Agency CEO Yehuda Setton with Col. (res.) Mofid Mara’i

Global Jewish Leaders Visit Israel’s North to Support Postwar Recovery Efforts


3,000 Ukrainian Jews requesting to make Aliyah - exclusive

The Jewish Agency has received 3,000 requests from Ukrainian Jews to make Aliyah in the last 24 hours, according to the agency's Acting Chairman Yaakov Hagoel.

 YOUNG RELIGIOUS Jews, several from Donetsk and the east, at Vishetsky’s Chabad community center in Kyiv. Few are considering aliyah at this time.

Ukraine crisis adds pressure to pick Jewish Agency head

"There is fear in the selection committee that if there’s no real chairman during the Ukraine crisis, the Jewish Agency’s reputation will be hurt dramatically," one of the candidates said.

 IN JULY, newly-elected Israeli president and outgoing chairman of the Jewish Agency Isaac Herzog and chairman of the World Zionist Organization Yaakov Hagoel attend a farewell ceremony held in Herzog’s honor at the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem.

Ukraine crisis: Jewish Agency emissaries leave Kyiv

The emissaries of the Jewish Agency will move to a temporary mission to open in the city of Lviv, until a reassessment of the situation early next week.

 Militants of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic take part in shooting drills at a range on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine, December 14, 2021.

Choosing a Jewish Agency chair shows care about Israel-Diaspora ties - editorial

The 10-member selection committee of the Jewish Agency has been unable to make a decision for the last 8½ months on who will head that organization.

The Jewish Agency headquarters in Jerusalem

Sharansky: It's a pity the Jewish Agency can't pick a chairperson

Natan Sharansky says that the Israeli politicians have been abusing the role of chairman of the Jewish Agency and treating it only as an opportunity to offer a job to fellow politicians

 NATAN SHARANSKY in 2011.

Jewish Agency meeting ends in stalemate

The Jewish Agency was unable to agree on a new chairman at their recent meeting and will try to come to an agreement before the Jewish Agency Board of Governors meeting on February 27.

FROM LEFT: Michael Siegal, Jewish Agency chairman of the board; Owen Egre, 10,000th Onward Israel participant; Isaac Herzog, Jewish Agency chairman of the executive; Alisa Doctoroff, Jewish Agency board of governors; David Shapira, Shapira Foundation chairman; David Silvers, Jewish Agency board of g

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is the best choice to head the Jewish Agency - opinion

The Jewish Agency has the potential to play its most important role since 1948, when it fostered the first realization of Jewish sovereignty in nearly 2,000 years.

 FLEUR HASSAN-NAHOUM: She came to Israel as a young adult, with no Hebrew.

The Jewish Agency: A global Jewish enterprise or Israeli political patronage? - opinion

The time has come to ask: Is the role of the Chair of the Jewish Agency to serve as a global Jewish leader, or merely to function as political patronage to solve domestic coalition challenges?

 View of the Jewish Agency headquarters in Jerusalem,

Jewish Agency chairmanship deadline to pass with no new candidate

Sources involved in the process said they did not feel they needed to hurry, because the agency's board of governors will not be meeting until February.

The Jewish Agency headquarters in Jerusalem

Lapid’s Jewish Agency chairman deadline today

There is a strong possibility that the committee will receive a request from Lapid to extend the deadline.

 Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at the Knesset, November 15, 2021.