JERUSALEM, Israel — Jerome Henri Cohen was born in Paris and he was also born a Jew. But despite his heritage, he was living a secular life, first as a journalist and then as a successful lawyer in the French capital.
TEL AVIV – The daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman officially became an Israeli citizen on Tuesday, arriving with 233 North American immigrants to Ben Gurion Airport where she was greeted by her emotional father.
More than 700 immigrants from Brazil are scheduled to arrive in Israel by the end of the calendar year.
The number of Jewish people making aliyah (immigrating to Israel from France) in the first eight months of 2016 has shown a 42 percent decline from the same period in 2015.
TEL AVIV – Over two hundred new immigrants from the U.S. and Canada landed in Israel on Tuesday morning on a flight chartered by Aliyah [immigration] support NGO, Nefesh B’Nefesh.
TEL AVIV – Jews in France are feeling increasingly insecure and uncomfortable despite the French government’s efforts to protect them, according to Natan Sharansky, the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
The 67 Yemeni Jews who chose to stay in their war-torn country instead of joining the recent secret airlift to Israel are now having second thoughts amid ongoing harassment from their Muslim neighbors, the Media Line reported.
TEL AVIV – The attacks in Brussels demonstrate that Europe is shifting from being a free society to a fear society, the chairman of the Jewish Agency said.In an interview with the Algemeiner, Natan Sharansky said the bombings in the Belgian capital
The flight of Jews from mainland Europe following a sharp rise in anti-Semitism should be a warning to the rest of the population, a prominent Jewish organisation has warned. Jewish migration to Israel has doubled in the last two years,
TEL AVIV – A French Jew who survived a stabbing attack when he was 13 has since moved to Israel and was recruited into the elite Givati brigade last week, Israel Hayom reported.Jonathan Weinberg, a French Jew who was attacked
Jews are leaving France in record numbers citing fears of Islamic terrorism and rising anti-Semitism, according to a report by the Jewish Agency for Israel, leaving French politicians scrambling to provide assurances for those who choose to remain.
