Good news for olim:
Immigrant Absorption Ministry budget to rise by 220 mil. NIS
Due to the budget increase, funds will be directed to encourage immigration from the US and France and to assist those immigrants.
Due to the budget increase, funds will be directed to encourage immigration from the US and France and to assist those immigrants.
6,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel this summer, with more than 150 Naaleh students and 30 olim to arrive tomorrow from Ukraine.
Ethiopians in Israel allege government officials forced them to pay to speed up process of bringing relatives to Israel.
Absorption Minister Ze'ev Elkin says Ethiopian Jews must be addressed as 'equals', vows to stop discrimination after protests.
Longtime Ethiopian community activist and new Likud MK, Avraham Nagosa, wants post being vacated by Yisrael Beytenu's Landver.
Yisrael Beytenu demands that Israel's new government make it a strategic objective to remove Hamas from its position as ruler of Gaza.
Israel has come up with a jazzy new program to entice immigrants and ex-pats to come home on aliyah by easing “paperwork” via cell phone.
The government is extending its marketing to a new sector - new immigrants. Latest deal: a new SIM card and free minutes upon arrival.