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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

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Participants in the Discover by Israel Innovation Experience demo day held on July 15, 2021 (Eitan Abaud)
July 19, 2021, 6:20 pm
Latin American young adults visit Israel for hit of local ‘alta tecnología’
80 twenty-somethings participate in 5-month program that immerses them in Israel’s tech ecosystem with healthy dose of entrepreneurship
By Jake Epstein
Illustrative: Masa Israel fellows deliver flowers to Holocaust survivors, (Courtesy via JTA)
August 4, 2020, 2:22 am
Deri defends entry of 17,000 foreign students: We can’t keep Jews out of Israel
Opposition MKs slam coronavirus czar for decision, say country will pay a ‘heavy price’ for allowing students in at a time when most non-Israelis are barred
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Jewish men study torah in small groups at the Orot Shaul Yeshiva in Tel Aviv on July 7, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
August 3, 2020, 4:09 pm
Opposition MKs rap virus czar for approving entry of 17,000 foreign students
Liberman warns Israel will pay a ‘heavy price’ for decision, accuses Ronni Gamzu of ‘failed decision-making’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Yeshiva students study at the Mir Brachfeld yeshiva in Modi'in Ilit on August 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
August 3, 2020, 11:50 am
Coronavirus czar okays entry of around 17,000 foreign students to Israel
Days after signaling opposition, Ronni Gamzu approves plan to allow in thousands of yeshiva and university students, warns against violating quarantine conditions
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study in small groups at the Imrei Emes yeshiva of the Gur (Hasidic dynasty) in the city of Bnei Brak, June 16, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
July 22, 2020, 4:39 pm
Israel to grant entry to foreign participants in educational programs
Interior and health ministries agree to ease virus ban on non-nationals; move could enable thousands to arrive for study in yeshivas and educational trips
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Participants of Taglit Birthright, on a free trip to Israel, visit the waterfalls at the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve near the Dead Sea. (Melanie Fidler/Flash90 via JTA)
June 16, 2020, 1:34 am
Cancellation of heritage trips to cost Israeli economy $200 million, report says
Pandemic, travel restrictions force halt to visits by about 60,000 young Jews through programs sponsored by Birthright, Masa, Jewish schools, youth groups
By Marcy Oster
Masa interns working at a company in Israel (Masa)
February 10, 2020, 3:55 pm
Masa calls on Israeli startups, firms to foster foreign interns
Internship program sees 3,000 Jews from around the world specialize in a variety of positions; initiative generates $211 million annually for Israeli economy, Masa says
By Shoshanna Solomon
In September 2018, members of the Ugandan Jewish community participated in its first Birthright trip. Asiimwe Rabbin is in the foreground, center. (Birthright Israel via JTA)
October 17, 2018, 8:11 am
Ugandan Jew denied visa to study at yeshiva in Israel
Abayudaya community, many of whose members were converted by American Conservative rabbis, have been repeatedly rejected as Jews by the Interior Ministry
By JTA and ToI Staff
Jenna Cohen
April 13, 2016, 4:55 pm
Jenna Cohen
‘I didn’t want to kill anyone, so I ran’
The story of one asylum-seeker who arrived in Israel only to discover that he had no rights and no legal status
Nate Fish, director of the Israel Association of Baseball, demonstrating pitching to Israeli kids. (Margo Sugarman/IAB)
January 1, 2016, 1:03 am
For ex-baseball players, Israel pitched as next career step
A new program is importing sports talent to boost the game in a country where soccer and basketball reign
By Hillel Kuttler
Students and volunteers from around the world celebrate MasaFest at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem, on October 29, 2012. (Louis Fisher/Flash90)
August 10, 2015, 5:42 pm
Young Diaspora Jews ponder whether to put a ring on it with Israel
In a commitment-shy generation, the 10-month Masa Israel programs are an unexpected launch pad for aliyah
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett (left) and Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky (right) join an 'online jam session' in Jerusalem, February 2014. (Sasson Tiram)
August 22, 2014, 12:10 pm
Will urgent campus pro-Israel project fail through infighting?
JAFI head Sharansky says Diaspora Ministry’s ‘petty games’ threaten to derail first phase of major Israel-world Jewry initiative
By David Horovitz and Amanda Borschel-Dan
Birthright Israel participants at Masada, summer 2012 (photo credit: Courtesy Taglit-Birthright/JTA)
June 22, 2014, 10:23 pm
Can Israel rebuild the Jewish people?
A new government initiative that aims to spend hundreds of millions of shekels on Diaspora Jews is a good start, but it is only a start
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Guy Seemann (photo credit: Courtesy)
July 9, 2013, 11:31 am
Empowering olim — so they’ll stay
Five years after presenting his first plan to ease aliyah, Guy Seemann on Wednesday launches Kol Oleh, a movement to give olim issues prominence in the Tel Aviv elections campaign
By Michael Bassin
Onward Israel participants with iPads in hand take an interactive 'Jew Quest' through Jerusalem's Old City. (photo credit: Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)
June 25, 2013, 2:04 pm
New JAFI program strives to mind the Birthright gap
Onward Israel says it gives students a glimpse of hands-on Israeli life, but some students complain they’re merely being turned into PR machines
By Leeor Bronis
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