ICEJ attended the graduation of 15 Ethiopian immigrant students. Ethiopian olim have been a large focus of our Aliyah efforts, and we are delighted to give more opportunities to these young people.
Though this war with Hamas has triggered waves of antisemitism worldwide, it also is generating a surge of interest in Aliyah and Israelis joining the IDF. Another wave of Jews from around the world are preparing to come home to Israel.
Many Ethiopian immigrants arrived in Israel only six months before the terrible events of October 7. ICEJ aid and aliyah programs are still very much active despite the increased risks of the war.
The ICEJ will soon be engaged in pre-Aliyah activities: ground transportation, rescue flights and urgent integration of Jews from all these countries. We invite you to be a part of helping to regather these at-risk Jewish communities to Israel from all over the world.
On Wednesday, 1 February, Ethiopian Jews young and old took their first steps from the plane into their homeland of Israel.
Aliyah is a Hebrew word which means to “go up.” Today it has come to mean the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel.
Aliyah winter camps this January for Ukrainian Jewish youth have been an amazing and innovative way to assist.
Homecare received an excited call from Katya to report that her mother whom she’d missed greatly was on a flight from Ukraine. A week later she called again from her home in Beersheba in panic…
The ICEJ’s Home for Holocaust Survivors in Haifa has been welcoming nine new residents who fled the war in Ukraine, and all their stories are heartbreaking.
Still today, there are many Jews making Aliyah to Israel who are struggling and need help in restarting their lives in the Land of Promise. So, we are there to help, knowing that Israel, after all, is a country built by orphans and outcasts regathered from Gentile nations.
Over a thousand years ago, Jews travelled the Silk Road as traders and were welcomed by the Chinese Emperor to settle there if they wished. However, in recent years, many of the Chinese Jewish community began to experience an awakening to their heritage and seek Aliyah to Israel.
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