Photo Essay: The Ingathering Continues
More than 200 new Israelis arrived home Tuesday, including two who got engaged with the blessing of the entire crowd at Ben Gurion Airport.
By Hana Levi Julian
First Publish: 9/9/2009, 3:14 PM
More than 200 new Israelis -- 204, to be exact -- arrived home on Tuesday at Ben Gurion International Airport to the cheers of friends, family, and young IDF soldiers waving blue and white Israeli flags.
Gil Margulis makes Aliyah
The Land is Very Very Good
Yoseph Rabin - his brother Ben-Tzion made Aliyah today
Awesome Jew
America to Israel
The final planeload of 16 Nefesh B'Nefesh aliyah flights this year capped a season in which 3,000 new Western olim, or immigrants, made aliyah to Israel with the organization.
Lots of New Olim
Aliyah for Me
Fishman Family
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Tags: Aliyah & Absorption