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Knesset Immigration Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee

Chairman of the Knesset Aliyah, Absorption, and Diaspora Committee MK Gilad Kariv holds a hearing, December 2, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Knesset Spokesperson's Office)
December 9, 2025, 12:50 am
Lawmaker raises alarm over deportations of US Jews who help West Bank harvest
Chair of Knesset Diaspora Affairs Committee blasts police minister for ‘illegally’ boycotting hearing, alleges ‘selective enforcement’ of closed military zones in West Bank
By Jeremy Sharon
MK Gilad Kariv (The Democrats) chairs a meeting of the Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee, October 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/ Times of Israel)
October 21, 2025, 7:51 pm
‘Disgrace’: Knesset Diaspora panel chair pans Chikli for inviting British firebrand
Opposition MK Kariv says Tommy Robinson’s visit shows Diaspora minister ‘uninterested in fighting antisemitism’; representatives of his ministry and Foreign Ministry deny involvement
By Sam Sokol
Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Tel Aviv, June 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 2, 2025, 5:13 pm
2,000 new immigrants among 10,000 Israelis still displaced after war, MK says
Warning messages were translated, visas were extended, and immigration flights have resumed, officials tell a Knesset committee meeting on immigrant assistance during the Iran war
By Zev Stub
Haymanut Kasau, 9, who went missing on February 25, 2024, from a Jewish Agency absorption center in Safed, northern Israel. (Courtesy)
February 14, 2025, 1:57 pm
Police weigh sending team to Ethiopia in hunt for Israeli girl who vanished a year ago
Report says key CCTV footage missing from time Haymanut Kasau, 10, disappeared at an absorption center in Safed in February 2024; MK: Government owes family more effort to find her
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: New immigrants from Ethiopia arrive at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, June 1, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 25, 2024, 11:41 am
Absorption Ministry to slash rental assistance for new immigrants
Aid shrinks by nearly half to NIS 8,712 over two years, with additional monthly stipends for those moving to ‘national priority’ areas; Elkin: Ministry ‘pickpocketing’ new arrivals
By ToI Staff
Young immigrants learn hebrew at an ulpan, February 9, 2011. (Sophie Gordon)
March 19, 2024, 7:42 pm
MKs protest halt to government vouchers for immigrants’ Hebrew-language classes
Private ulpans and new immigrants scramble to cope after coalition, without warning, cuts off funding for lessons
By Sam Sokol
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators at a Within Our Lifetime rally near Columbia University in New York on November 15, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)
January 3, 2024, 6:08 pm
Foreign Ministry says it has ‘zero budget’ for combating antisemitism abroad
‘There has not been any substantial funding for the last couple of weeks,’ diplomat confirms to Times of Israel
By Sam Sokol
Teacher Hanna Rabkin and three new immigrants from Ukraine attend class at Renanim Shuvu school in Nof Hagalil, Israel, March 23, 2022. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
March 28, 2023, 8:27 am
100 Hebrew teachers for new immigrants file resignation letters in protest at wages
Resignations account for 20% of total number of tutors at state-provided language schools that are already suffering backlog due to lack of teaching staff
By ToI Staff
The Knesset's Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs Committee holds a hearing on Hebrew teacher shortages on January 18, 2023. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)
January 18, 2023, 7:13 pm
MKs demand solutions to Hebrew teacher shortage that is vexing new immigrants
Low pay blamed for months-long backlog for new arrivals seeking placement in language classes; fuming panel head knocks plan to offer vouchers for private lessons
By Judah Ari Gross
The Knesset's Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs holds its first hearing on January 9, 2023. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)
January 10, 2023, 12:46 pm
After 50-year high in 2021, immigration from North America returns to normal
In first session, Knesset’s ‘aliyah’ committee also hears from experts and activists on massive influx following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
By Judah Ari Gross
Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar at the Knesset on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 3, 2021, 10:37 pm
Yisrael Beytenu’s Avidar becomes minister after threats to break with coalition
Rebel lawmaker gets ‘strategic planning’ portfolio in PM’s office, quits parliament under so-called Norwegian Law
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool)
July 25, 2021, 3:55 pm
Cabinet approves Yisrael Beytenu’s Avidar as minister, Meretz’s Golan as deputy
Rebel lawmaker to become minister in PM’s office after threats to break with coalition; former general to become deputy minister of economic affairs; cabinet now numbers 29
By ToI Staff
Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar in the Knesset, on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
July 24, 2021, 1:58 am
Ahead of cabinet appointment, Knesset’s vaccine holdout announces inoculation
In statement 2 days before he becomes minister, Eli Avidar’s office says he finally got the shot because of family considerations and ‘responsibility as a public figure’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar attend a plenum session in the Knesset, on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 22, 2021, 9:53 pm
Wayward Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar to be appointed minister — report
Rebel lawmaker said to be on his way to heading Intelligence Ministry after threats to break with coalition; Meretz MK to be made deputy economy minister amid Knesset reshuffle
By ToI Staff
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