223 North Americans will emigrate from the US and Canada and move to Israel together on a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter Aliyah flight, in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah & Immigrant Absorption, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL) and JNF-USA. The flight will arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv on Tuesday 13 Tammuz with an eclectic group of immigrants landing together in Israel with Nefesh B’Nefesh, the organization responsible for facilitating the aliyah of nearly 50,000 North American and British Jews in over a decade.
The flight’s passengers include a diverse mix of people from 17 states and two Canadian provinces, including former servicemen from three different US Armed Forces units, families of all sizes, young professionals and others.
A festive welcoming ceremony will take place for the newcomers at Ben-Gurion Airport Terminal 1 (Gate 8) following the flight’s arrival. Notable guests at the ceremony will include: Minister of Aliyah & Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver; Chairman of the Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs MK Avraham Neguise Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky; World Chairman of KKL-JNF, Danny Atar; and Founders of Nefesh B’Nefesh, Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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6 Responses
Kol hakavod
Kein yirbu. May we all be zoche to join them soon and finally be able to say the words “I’M coming home”
What is the reason for their aliyah is it because they love hashem`s land or just for the fun? just asking
they are doing a big mitzvah, however they must ensure their children get proper Torah chinuch and not fall off the derech like many other olim as the Zionists goals are to make the frum frei like them, also they must ensure that their boys not serve in the army but rather in beis medrash, in the times of Tanach for every soldier there were 2 people in beis medrash.
Oh, yes, living in Israel is a barrel of laughs. Your comment proves that certain organisms really don’t have a brain.
To the new Olim, I say welcome home. I hope making Aliyah will be as successful & fulfilling for you as it was for us less than 3 years ago.
yungerman- What is the reason for your bad midah of cynicism -bad upbringing, something you picked up in Yeshiva or you just don’t work on yourself. Just asking.