Yaakov Hagoel

Netanyahu, officials lay wreaths after siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day

The wreaths in memory of Holocaust victims were hung on pedestals before a memorial torch. Netanyahu was the second to place his flowers, but stopped to steady and straighten the wreath.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials stand at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.
 Participants at NYC's Israel Day Parade, May 18, 2025.

WZO invites Mamdani to NYC Israel Day Parade, consul Akunis fires back

World Zionist Organization Chair Yaakov Hagoel and Jewish Agency Chair Doron Almog are seen alongside families of the Sydney terror attack victims during a solidarity visit to Australia, February 10, 2026.

'Mutual responsibility': Israel recognizes Bondi casualties as victims of antisemitism

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


Tamano-Shata expects 6,000 to 10,000 immigrants to Israel each month

“I instructed the Ministerial Committee on Aliyah and Immigration to grant approvals in principle and not to delay anyone who wants to come to Israel,” Aliyah and Integration Minister said.

 Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata is seen greeting Ukrainian refugees arriving in Israel through Operation Israeli Guarantee, on March 6, 2022.

Israel's 'Plan B' to rescue Ukraine's Jews - interview with WZO Chairman

Diaspora Affairs: “We have about 7,000 candidates for aliyah staying at the moment in hotels and other facilities in Moldova, Hungary, Romania and Poland," WZO Chairman Yaakov Hagoel said.

WZO CHAIRMAN Yaakov Hagoel poses for a picture at the World Zionist Organization offices in Jerusalem.

Jewish Agency emissaries to return to Ukraine, says acting chairman

Acting Chairman Yaakov Hagoel said: "We estimate that instead of hundreds making Aliyah every week, thousands will be immigrating to Israel every week in the near future."

Yaakov Hagoel-Chairman of the executive, World Zionist Organization(WZO)

Jewish Agency selection committee meeting ends with no conclusion, again

No candidate received nine of the 10 votes on the selection committee to be chosen as the next Jewish Agency chairman.  

The Jewish Agency headquarters in Jerusalem

Grapevine December 22, 2021: Yet another career move?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

President Isaac Herzog with El Salvador Ambassador Susana Gun de Hasenson

There is only one Jerusalem - opinion

While freedom of worship has been given to all religions in the city, there is excessive strictness imposed upon Jews seeking to visit the Temple Mount.

Yaakov Hagoel, chairman of the World Zionist Organization.

Yaakov Hagoel: World Zionist Organization is the Jewish world’s government

A significant challenge? Repairing the relationship between Jews in Israel and the Diaspora, Hagoel says.

YAAKOV HAGOEL steps into his new role as chairman of the World Zionist Organization