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Topic: Jewish Agency for Israel

April 18, 2013
9:08 am

Firestone named president of Genesis Prize Foundation

The annual ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’ of $1m. aims to honor individuals whose success has been informed by their Jewish values

March 5, 2013
8:30 pm

An Israeli young woman waves the Israeli flag as she participates with hundreds of other Israeli youth in "the March of the Living" tour which involves visiting concentration and death camps in Poland. May 02, 2011. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

In Poland, a ‘breakthrough’ on Holocaust compensation

Warsaw, for first time, said willing to seriously discuss restitution

By Raphael Ahren

March 5, 2013
8:04 pm

Lawrence J. Korb, former US assistant secretary of defense, speaks during a press conference calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard in Jerusalem, on March 5, 2012, ahead of US President Obama's visit to Israel later this month. (photo credit: Flash90)

Former US official comes out for Pollard’s release

Lawrence Korb joins movement calling on Obama to pardon the imprisoned Israeli spy

By Aaron Kalman

February 19, 2013
9:50 pm

Jewish Agency chairman and former cabinet minister Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Courtesy JAFI)

Sharansky unanimously reelected Jewish Agency head

Prime minister praises former Soviet dissident, cabinet minister as ‘a symbol of Jewish unity’

By Asher Zeiger

February 19, 2013
9:44 pm

Youth activists protest for Pollard's release outside US Consulate in Israel, July 2011 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Jewish Agency calls for Pollard release

Chairman Natan Sharansky, a former prisoner in Russia, says 28 years in jail are ‘more than enough’

By Asher Zeiger

February 18, 2013
2:04 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking earlier this month. (photo credit: Dave Bender, Jewish Agency for Israel)

N. Korea proves sanctions not enough, Netanyahu says

Prime minister also tells Jewish Agency Board of Governors that Obama visit will be opportunity to reset talks with Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

January 21, 2013
2:21 pm

New immigrants from the USA and Canada arrive at the Ben Gurion Airport on August 14, 2012 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Immigration to Israel drops 2 percent in 2012

As compared to previous year, fewer olim come from North America and Ethiopia, but more arrive from Western Europe

January 9, 2013
11:48 am

A worker on Tuesday prepares ballot boxes for the January 22 elections at a warehouse in Shoham, near Tel Aviv, before they are shipped to polling stations. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israelis in New Zealand to kick off voting Wednesday night

4,000 citizens employed at 92 missions around the world to vote overseas

By Michal Shmulovich

January 8, 2013
2:30 pm

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

With Western Wall unity crumbling, a refusenik hopes to meld women’s rights and tradition

Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky is drafted to find solution for women who want to pray at wall without restrictions

By Ben Sales

December 30, 2012
12:51 am

Zahava Aregito Zagaya (right) speaks with Mekdes in Gorgora Buchara, her mother's village. Mekdes said he remembered Zahava's mother and grandparents and showed her here her grandfather was buried. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/ToI)

Back on the wings of eagles

Israeli teens journey to Ethiopia to walk in their parents’ footsteps

By Michal Shmulovich

December 26, 2012
4:55 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to the Western Wall in 2006 (photo credit: Guy Assayag/Flash90)

Netanyahu seeks solution for restrictions on women’s prayer at Western Wall

Holy site ‘must remain a source of Jewish unity rather than division,’ PM tells Jewish Agency chair

November 19, 2012
11:13 pm

Israeli men who immigrated from Ethiopia during the Sigd holiday, last week (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From the quiet of Ethiopia to the explosions of the south

Stesyahu Alema and 90 other new immigrants head straight into the conflict zone upon arrival

By Ben Sales

November 13, 2012
11:11 pm

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, left, and Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky speak at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations in North America last year. (David Karp/JTA)

With Jewish life splintering, federations focus on streamlining work

At annual gathering, communal organizations look toward updated model for philanthropy and budgeting

By Uriel Heilman

November 1, 2012
6:22 pm

Young American Jews participate in a Birthright event in Jerusalem (illustrative photo: Dudi Vaknin/Flash90)

After 26 years, Otzma program for young adults in Israel to be axed

Alumni protest Federations’ decision to scrap ‘premier Israel experience’ that produced high rates of aliya and communal involvement in the US and Canada

By Times of Israel staff

October 28, 2012
3:45 pm

Newly arrived Ethiopian immigrants at Ben-Gurion International Airport in 2011 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

240 Falash Mura due in Israel on Monday

Jewish Agency set to welcome first in a series of monthly flights

By Times of Israel staff

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