Aliyah

It makes no sense - but it's home

Despite everything, we stay. But more than that — we come. Opinion.

The Gold Card:

Guide to Trump’s new US immigration pathway

President Donald Trump has announced plans to introduce a new US immigration pathway called a “Gold Card.” So, what is a Gold Card and what will this pathway require? Keep reading to learn more

Everyone must join in the battle

The Land of Israel belongs to all of the Jewish People. Not only all the Jews living in Israel must rise up to defend it.All of us are called upon to take part.

Making Aliyah? Here's what to do with the stuff you’re leaving

So, you’re making Aliyah. It’s exciting, emotional, and - let’s be honest, a tad overwhelming.

The Eternal Mitzvah

The importance of dwelling in Israel

Leading rabbinic authorities, from the Vilna Gaon to Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, have emphasized that the mitzvah is as binding today as ever.

Aliyah tour connects thousands with opportunities in Israel

Over 2000 participants attended multiple Aliyah fairs and events, gaining essential services and expert guidance on the Aliyah process and their numerous options.

MedEx:

Joint mission to alleviate Israel’s critical shortage of doctors

Record-breaking MedEx event empowers Jewish doctors to tackle Israel’s physician shortage, by streamlining the Aliyah process and ensuring their successful integration into Israel’s healthcare workforce.

Reform in professional licensing for Olim to cut bureaucracy

New reform ends bureaucracy and enables immediate employment for professionals upon Aliyah.

Aging parents and aliyah

Snce this week marks my mother’s yahrtzeit, may her memory be a blessing, I will use my personal experience to demonstrate that bringing one’s aging parents to Israel is the very best thing a child could do for them.

Special conference in NYC:

Legal professionals could and should move to Israel

Jeremy Lustman, Head of DLA PIPER's Israel Group, speaks with Arutz Sheva about how the group is encouraging legal professionals to move to Israel.

Nefesh B’Nefesh:

Young Olim honored for their contributions to Israel

Maor Prize celebrates eight inspiring young immigrants: honoring resilience, leadership, and dedication to Israel with an additional special recognition award for courage and triumph over adversity.

Hanukkah this year has a very special meaning

Of course, Aliyah is the only answer, but while the Rabbis I met are aware of the instability of continued Diaspora existence, in my opinion, a lingering spirit of denial prevents them from seeing how immediate the danger is.

Legal immigration to Israel: Challenges and solutions

Immigration to Israel is a subject of immense complexity and significance, reflecting the country’s unique history, its role as a Jewish homeland, and its evolving socio-political landscape.

Moving Up: An Interview with Aliyah Minister Ofir Sofer

Minister Sofer is visiting the USA to encourage aliya - and Nefesh B'Nefesh recently reported a 70% increase in aliyah applications, compared to the previous year, from Western countries. What is the cause of the increase and how can Israel help olim integrate?

How a Professional Legal Representative Can Benefit You

Understanding the US Immigration - How a Professional Legal Representative Can Benefit You

Meet the New Olim - Joey and Pnina Savery from London

Joey and Pnina Savery, who immigrated from London to Carmay Hanadiv in Kiryat Malachi, share their Aliya story and explain that when 'People opened up their arms to us,' they realized that this is the perfect neighborhood for them.

Israeli analyst berates US-born minister for not being 'Israeli'

Amnon Abramovich hinted that Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, who was born in Florida, was not fit for his position because he did not have 'an Israeli experience.'

Meet the New Olim - James and Judith of Carmay Hanadiv

James and Judith Mandel, who immigrated to Carmay Hanadiv in Kiryat Malachi, share their Aliya story and why the openness and the Israeliness of Carmay Hanadiv made it the perfect neighborhood for them.

Israel weighs ending some benefits for new immigrants

Israel’s proposed wartime budget would slash benefits for new immigrants.

Chicken soup for the aliyah snob's soul

I listen to the tourists planning their departures, and I wonder: Don't they understand the historical context of having the ability to return to our Holy Land after a long and bitter exile of 2,000 years? Why is going back to the US such an easy choice?

31,000 new olim moved to Israel over the last year

Ministry of Aliyah and Integration and Jewish Agency Release Aliyah Numbers Ahead of Jewish New Year showing how over 30,000 Jews made aliyah over the last year despite the war.

Muslim aliyah paralleled the Jewish aliyah-before and after 1948

Muslim aliyah is neither celebrated nor condemned. Individual in nature, driven by practical goals rather than idealism, and smaller than its Jewish counterpart, it is routine, important, and for the Arab world, embarrassing. Op-ed.

Nefesh B’Nefesh celebrates busy Aliyah season

Aliyah and Integration and Interior Ministers greet the new Olim who were presented with their Israeli ID cards.

Hundreds of North Americans make aliyah in a week

Five group aliyah flights landed at Ben Gurion Airport within 24 hours. Over the course of the week (August 20-28), 600 newcomers will make Israel their new home, on 14 group Aliyah flights, offered by Nefesh B’Nefesh.

Ekev:

The Alcatraz Syndrome

Yes, freedom and change can be difficult and challenging, but millions of former prisoners have escaped their former prisons and found a wonderful new life in Israel.

New olim find their home in new Galilee community

The community of Ramat Arbel held a special event to celebrate two years since its settlement and welcomed the Perron family, who made Aliya from the United States five years ago and settled in Ramat Arbel.

The new Aliyah emissaries

The silver lining in the situation Jews are facing in the West. Op-ed.

Jews of America, why wait?

Why do we in Israel see the danger so clearly while the Jews of America and their Jewish leadership seem not to feel it? Op-ed.

'Embracing new immigrants'

Immigrants purchasing home to receive significant tax break

Finance Committee approves significant benefits for olim on property purchase tax.

What short memories Jews have! The state of French Jewry

We must act quickly and call out to all the Jews of France – ‘Don't delay. The situation throughout Europe is rapidly deteriorating. You have an historic opportunity to immigrate to Israel and to be a part of the generation returning to Zion after 2000 years of exile."

Decolonize Israel

The Jewish world must see Israel as it’s home to be protected, not as a commodity to be exploited. Op-ed.

Arutz Sheva accompanies Olim

2,000 Jews to immigrate to Israel amid war

The months following October 7th have seen a sharp increase in American Jews who chose to come home. Nefesh B’Nefesh will oversee 14 summer Aliyah group flights from June through September which will bring an expected 2,000 Olim.

'Send Us':

Aliyah activists urge state to work together for immigration

A group of activists specializing in promoting Jewish immigration to Israel held a conference today in Jerusalem to discuss strategies for boosting immigration and called for the government to support their work.

Nowhere else to go

Is that why we are here, because we have “nowhere else to go? Op-ed.

HaRav Shmuel Eliahu's call for Aliyah

So all-encompassing is this commandment that a person performs it even while he sleeps!

A turning point for American Jews

This may be the most significant turning point since the 1930s, when US Jews failed to mobilize a communal response to the Holocaust. Opinion.

Welcome Home!

We are hoping that these photos will give encouragement to all Israelis who also see the photos of our fallen soldiers.

My Fellow Rabbis – To the Land of Israel!

The mitzvah of the moment is to awaken your congregations to take immediate steps to begin the process of Aliyah.

A message to young Jewish men presently in the galut

Free will distinguishes us from all other species in Hashem’s creation - mineral, flora, fauna and angels - we alone have the freedom to choose. So?

'The new Zionists'

New immigrants explore IDF enlistment options at NBN fair

Olim Al Madim fair at the Nefesh B’Nefesh Aliyah Campus in Jerusalem for new olim from around the world who came to Israel during the war and wish to serve and protect the Jewish nation.

Fair held for new immigrants to explore their enlistment options

Representatives from multiple IDF and civilian organizations offered valuable information to the newcomers who are expecting to draft within the next two years.

The Band-Aid Aliyah conception

Unfortunately we are indeed a stubborn people. Without getting repeatedly hit on the head we don’t internalize the message. Must we wait until blood flows on college campuses in America and on the streets of Lakewood and Monsey, New York?

British comedian:

'Britain is a dying society. I’ll be fine in Israel'

Lee Kern reflects on the country where he was raised and looks forward to leaving it for the Jewish homeland: 'I’ll be fine in Israel. It’s the most dynamic, creative, and positive place I’ve ever been.'

Change the aliyah focus now!

There is a better approach to aliyah than spending fortunes to bring Jews from Western countries. Opinion

Emergency aliyah conference

The May 1st grassroots conference will focus on post-October 7 aliyah challenges and the crisis on college campuses throughout America.

Jewish-British comedian to make aliyah to Israel

Writer and comedian Lee Kern announces he will be moving to the Jewish State, Minister of Immigration and Absorption congratulates: 'No doubt that the thousands of olim since October 7 give Israel a backbone to defeat our enemy!'

The Aliyah Program:

Helping olim buy a home in Israel

Meny Greenbaum, founder and owner of the Meny Group, spoke to Arutz Sheva – Israel National News on buying real estate in Israel: 'We believe that this is the only place where Jews should be.'

Letter from a distant Dad

The characters and details in these letters are a fictional parable about the relationship between American Jewry and the Jews living in the land of Israel. Op-ed.

The Accidental Politician:

American-born Rabbi enters Jerusalem municipal races

Rabbi Haim Pear explains how he hopes to represent Jerusalem's immigrant population following the upcoming municipal elections in Israel's capital.

What do Chabad and the Reform Movement agree on?

Chabad has the power (if it so desires..) to influence 1 Million Jews to make Aliyah this instant.

7 killed in rocket strike on synagogue in India

Knesset Diaspora Affairs Committee demands govt. act to bring Bnei Menashe to Israel after members killed in going ethnic conflict.

720 North American immigrants arrived in Israel since war began

Fourth quarter Aliyah requests up 142% from previous year. 50% of immigrants driven by Zionism, while 6% cite antisemitism as their reason.

Why Diaspora Jews don’t understand that they belong in Israel

The spark of love in their souls for the Land of Israel, a part of our genetic inheritance from our holy forefathers, needs to be lit

Living in the Land - now!

Solving Israel’s true PR Problem- American aliyah - must be a priority for hasbara. Book review.

Your Nation is calling

The Hanukkah "Conceptsia"

In Israel we are one nation – not outside of it where we are dry scattered bones of Ezekiel’s prophecy waiting to be resurrected to life.

Fallen soldier's parents fulfill his will and move to Israel

The parents of lone soldier Nathaniel Young, who fell on October 7th, decided to follow their son's path and made aliyah.

The Parsha and Current Events: We have returned

For 2000 years the land of Israel was in suspension, as a wife impatiently awaits the return of her beloved husband who was called away.

My home sweet home

Which is it going to be - the Goldene Medina or the Land of Milk and Honey given to us by Hashem?

Dr. Jesse Berkowitz z"l: Family, chessed and Eretz Yisrael

Memorializing someone who was never in the public eye, but who symbolizes ethical and idealistic, yet practical, religious Zionism.