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Following the financial crisis of 2007–2008, American Jewish immigration to Israel rose. This wave of immigration was triggered by Israel's lower unemployment rate, combined with financial incentives offered to new Jewish immigrants. In 2009, aliyah was at its highest in 36 years, with 3,324 North American Jews making aliyah. [114]
In coordination with local authorities and the Jewish Agency, the Ministry is responsible for helping new immigrants (olim) find employment and accommodation, and gives advice on education, planning and social issues, as well as setting up the "immigrant basket" of benefits (such as tax breaks, grants etc.).
The Immigrant camps in Israel (Hebrew: מחנות עולים plural Mahanot Olim) were temporary refugee absorption camps, meant to provide accommodation for the large influx of Jewish refugees and new Olim (Jewish immigrants) arriving to Mandatory Palestine and later the independent State of Israel, since early 1947.
Approximately 7.2 million of the world's 15.7 million Jews reside in Israel, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel, another nonprofit that encourages immigration to Israel. Eve Baliff, 24 ...
Non-Jewish spouses have right of return if they immigrate to Israel at the same time as their Jewish spouses; [90] same-sex spouses of Jews have been eligible for this since 2014. [91] Otherwise, they are granted temporary residence permits gradually replaced by less restrictive conditions of stay over a period of 4.5 years until they become ...
Holocaust survivors arriving in Haifa in 1945, before the passage of the Law of Return Moroccan Jewish immigrants arriving in Israel under the Law of Return, 1954 North American immigrants arriving in Israel under the auspices of Nefesh B'Nefesh. The Law of Return was passed unanimously by the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, on 5 July 1950. [4]
After Beta Israel received formal recognition in 1973, a number of covert operations directed by the Israeli government, Israel’s national intelligence agency Mossad, and Israel Defense Forces ...
In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish immigration from other parts of the Middle East.