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About Immigration to Israel
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Aliyah: /ä-lE-'yä/
Function: noun
Etymology: 'alIyAh, from Hebrew, ascent, rise, advance, progress: the immigration of Jews to Israel, the return
of the Jewish people to their homeland. |
In 1950, two years after its independence and five years after the murder of six million European Jews, the Israel legislature passed what is still its most important law: “Every Jew has the right to immigrate to this country.” They said, never again. They said, after 2000 years of wandering, we are home.
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The Jewish Agency is the guardian of a sacred covenant—that any Jew, every Jew, has a home in Israel. The Jewish Agency has been our Jewish world's "first responder" in a global partnership that has made history rescuing Jews from distress.
From the founding days of the State of Israel our work is legendary: bringing Holocaust survivors to Israel and the massive exodus of more than 800,000 Jews from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, and Morocco throughout the 1950s. In 1984 the first Ethiopian Jews were rescued in the historic Operation Moses; and in 1991, a 48-hour airlift from Addis Ababa to Tel Aviv brought 14,000 Ethiopians home to Israel. In the 1990s, the Jewish Agency harnessed the collective global will to make possible the historic movement of more than one million Jews from the former Soviet Union to freedom in Israel.
Behind the sweeping drama of these larger-than-life rescues, are the quiet stories of individuals and families that the Jewish Agency is helping every day. Strengthening the Jewish homeland one life at a time. Our task is far from over.
You can help today by making a donation online
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