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Participants in the Nativ pre-college gap year program, which is affiliated with the Conservative movement, historically divided their time between study in Jerusalem and volunteering elsewhere in Israel. (Courtesy of Nativ via JTA)
July 11, 2025, 4:18 pm
Conservative Judaism relaunches Israel gap-year program with Tel Aviv internships
Instead of sending students to kibbutzim and small villages for volunteer work, the four-decade-old Nativ track now sends them to the White City’s trendy Florentin neighborhood
By Grace Gilson
Participants in the Nativ pre-college gap year program, affiliated with the Conservative movement, divide their time between study in Jerusalem and volunteering elsewhere in Israel. (Courtesy of Nativ)
December 22, 2023, 5:29 am
Conservative movement suspends its Israel gap-year program, citing budget woes
Long-running Nativ program shrank considerably in recent years; Conservative movement leaders lament ‘new economic realities, recruitment challenges’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Deputy Minister Avi Maoz, right, meets with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, center-left, in the latter's office in Jerusalem on January 11, 2023. (Avi Maoz's Office)
January 12, 2023, 5:32 am
Maoz looks to involve Rabbinate in determining Jewishness of would-be immigrants
As head of Nativ, which checks citizenship eligibility in FSU, far-right lawmaker seems to be trying to make process harder so as to keep out those who are not halachically Jewish
By Judah Ari Gross
Mark Dovev speaks at a Nativ event in Ukraine on October 10, 2021. (Nativ)
December 7, 2022, 6:29 am
Aiding Ukrainians, immigration official finds what it means for Israel to be a haven
Head of office that checks citizenship eligibility for Ukrainian immigrants reflects on early days of Russian invasion, vows to abide by whatever coalition decides on Law of Return
By Judah Ari Gross
Head of the Noam party Avi Maoz at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 1, 2022, 6:56 am
He campaigned for Soviet immigration. Now Avi Maoz is poised to fight against it
As head of the Nativ program, the far-right nationalist could make immigration from the former Soviet Union much harder for those who aren’t Jewish according to Orthodox law
By Judah Ari Gross
Noam's sole MK Avi Maoz speaks during his party's faction meeting at the Knesset, November 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 7:13 pm
Far-right MK Maoz says will act according to law in handling Jewish immigration
Head of Noam party, set to lead new department for ‘Jewish identity,’ wants to change rules to limit right to immigrate; Liberman: His office will stand for ‘blood purity’
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Noam MK Avi Maoz arrives for a meeting with President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 4:18 am
‘Insanity, unreal’: Netanyahu slammed over deal with anti-pluralistic, homophobic MK
Politicians from outgoing coalition say Likud chief’s agreement to put Avi Maoz in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity is a ‘slap in the face,’ could ‘plunge Israel into the abyss’
By Michael Bachner
MK Avi Maoz, left, and Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu after signing a coalition deal on November 27, 2022. (Courtesy, Likud)
November 27, 2022, 11:30 pm
Netanyahu puts extremist homophobic politician in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity
Presumed PM-elect signs coalition deal with Avi Maoz, who holds radical views on non-Orthodox Judaism, LGBT Israelis, Arabs and women
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Russian-born former Israeli diplomat Yaakov Kedmi in Moscow in 2017. (Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-4.0)
May 17, 2022, 6:15 pm
Ex-Israeli diplomat on Russian state TV: Moscow could bomb UK ‘back to Stone Age’
Yaakov Kedmi suggests Russia could deploy its hypersonic Zircon missile against Britain, and, if so, ‘about 50 or 60’ of its power stations would ‘be gone in 10 minutes’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (front left) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz meet Jewish immigrants fleeing from war zones in Ukraine, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 5, 2022, 9:45 pm
Israel’s immigration minister to visit Ukraine to spur aliyah efforts
Pnina Tamano-Shata will be the second Israeli minister to visit the country since Russia invaded, will also travel to Israeli field hospital in western Ukraine, her office says
By Judah Ari Gross
Anna, with Vadik, 6, and Dasha, 3, at the Israeli Consulate in Chisinau, Moldova, March 17, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
March 21, 2022, 8:21 pm
From chaos to cooperation: Moldova learns to cope with Ukrainian refugees
‘We’ve become crisis experts in 3 weeks,’ says head of Joint Distribution Committee in Chisinau, one of a dizzying number of groups trying to care for those fleeing the war
By Sue Surkes
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