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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

Aliyah Day

A family of immigrants to Israel, part of the stories being told at Yom Haaliyah event on November 7, 2024 at Anu Museum of the Jewish People. (Credit: Yonit Shiller)
November 3, 2024, 7:24 am
TLV museum to celebrate immigrants with storytelling, food, music
To mark the eve of Yom HaAliyah, the ANU Museum of the Jewish People’s event will include performances, archival screening to celebrate those who immigrated to Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
MK and Chair of the Committee David Bitan, Chair of the Jewish Agency Isaac 'Boogie' Herzog, Secretary-General of the Jewish Agency Josh Schwartz, and MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh, at the Knesset Aliya Committee's observance of the anniversary of the Pittsburgh terrorist attack, October 27, 2020. (Becca Wertman)
October 27, 2020, 5:22 pm
2 years on, MKs seek ways to remember Pittsburgh massacre, prevent another
Head of Knesset Committee for Immigration David Bitan tasks roundtable to envision a memorial to the fallen at Tree of Life synagogue and implement an annual national ceremony
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Attendees at TIIF”S the Wine on the Vine launch party in Jaffa, January 18, 2018. (Aviram Valdman)
November 5, 2019, 1:05 am
Wine on the Vine pops cork to celebrate immigrants
Non-profit that promotes Israeli wine industry will honor newcomers and party down at Jerusalem’s First Station for Yom HaAliyah
By Jessica Steinberg
Nonagenarian Eric Sargon, who played for The Beatles, Eric Clapton and the BBC Orchestra, plays his viola in his new Jerusalem apartment (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 15, 2019, 3:21 am
New immigrant violist, 91, ‘got out of my pajamas’ for The Beatles
‘I didn’t know what the hell music I was playing,’ says Eric Sargon of his contribution to one of the most popular bands of all time
By Jessica Steinberg
A surfer at Tel Aviv's Hilton Beach, considered a hangout for the LGBT community, during the 2015 Gay Pride Week. (Matthew Hechter/Flash 90)
October 26, 2017, 10:41 pm
Tel Aviv turns to tango to prevent immigrants waltzing out of Israel
The white city toasts new arrivals with a month of events, but activists say that won’t be enough to keep them here
By Grace Austin
Rachel Stomel
October 26, 2017, 1:33 pm
Rachel Stomel
Immigrants: We get the job done
Have Americans been conditioned to waltz into other countries and tell everyone how to run things better?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) shakes hands with Likud MK Avraham Neguise during an event marking Aliya Day in the Knesset on October 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 24, 2017, 3:45 pm
Knesset event cheering immigrants marred by fighting on Ethiopians, conversion
Second ‘Aliya Day’ holiday event punctuated by criticism of government, rabbinate over those left behind
By Marissa Newman
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver welcome more than 200 French Jews who immigrated to Israel aboard a special Jewish Agency Aliyah flight, July 20, 2016. (Nir Kafri for The Jewish Agency for Israel)
November 8, 2016, 8:09 pm
Israel celebrates new immigrants on first ever Aliyah Day
In special Knesset session, Sharansky vows he ‘will not give up on a single Jew,’ says ‘there is room for all of us here’
By JTA
Illustration. New immigrants arrive to Ben Gurion airport in Israel. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)
November 7, 2016, 6:35 pm
Celebrating aliyah, PM hails ‘tremendous’ contribution of Israel’s immigrants
On eve of first national holiday for migrants, Netanyahu says influx of Jews is ‘fulfillment of biblical prophecy’
By Raoul Wootliff
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