Some of a group of 221 North Americans arriving as immigrants to Israel, and greeted by Absorption Minister Ze’ev Elkin, July 14, 2015 (Courtesy)
Over 200 new immigrants from the United States and Canada landed in Israel on Tuesday morning, where they were greeted by government ministers and MK. The 221 olim arrived on a special charter flight organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh in cooperation with the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption and the Jewish Agency.
On board were 32 families, including 95 children. They were greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by Minister of Immigrant Absorption MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), fellow Likud minister Gila Gamliel, Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria, and other officials.
Azaria, whose 90-year-old grandmother was among those on the flight, hailed the new arrivals for “joining the Zionist dream” along with Israel’s millions of Israeli Jews.
From the Times of Israel
One year after Operation Protective Edge, 221 new immigrants from the United States and Canada arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning. The charter flight was organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh along with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, and JNF-USA.
Thirty-two families and 53 singles from 14 US states, the District of Columbia and four Canadian provinces were on the Tuesday charter flight, Nefesh B’Nefesh reported. About one quarter of the people arriving on the flight decided to settle in Israel’s periphery as part of the Nefesh B’Nefesh and Keren Kayemeth L’Israel’s Go North and Go South programs.
Nefesh B’Nefesh reported on Monday that during 2015, more than 4,000 new immigrants are expected to make aliyah from North America and that 2000 of them were set to arrive over the course of the summer months.
From the Jerusalem Post
