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Making aliya amidst a war is sometimes seen as stepping from the frying pan into the fire, or perhaps true Zionism. But, since 7 October, 23...
South Africans making aliya in the first part of 2024 were even more resolute, and not deterred by concerns about emigrating to a country at war....
South African olim can breathe a sigh of relief as the Knesset has agreed to maintain the generous Israeli tax incentives available for aliya. Speculation had...
Seeing a little girl, about eight years old holding a placard saying, “One Zionist One Bullet” outside Beyachad in Johannesburg, where the annual Aliyah Expo was...
Walking into the Aliyah Expo in Johannesburg and Cape Town last week was like taking a trip into a real-life encyclopaedia for aliya, say participants, with...
My husband Ian and I are in our mid-sixties, and made aliya five years ago. I feel honoured to have been invited by the Jewish Agency...
Dafi Forer Kremer, the new director of the Israel Centre in South Africa, is determined to assist Jewish educators to teach South Africans about Israel. Having...
Capetonian Mark Blumenthal made aliya with his wife in January this year and in doing so, they wanted to show their support for Israel and show...
The war in Israel has made Osher Favel strangely more convinced to make aliya from South Africa than she was before it started. Favel is one...
Soon after touching down at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on 15 October, 73-year-old South African olah Andrea Goldblatt experienced a traumatic moment when a siren...
Being in a new country for Rosh Hashanah has its challenges. The SA Jewish Report reached out to recent olim to find out what this time...
As Liat Amar Arran, who has run the Israel Centre in South Africa for the past four and a half years, packs to return to Israel,...
With the myriad of practicalities that need to be addressed in the process of making aliya, many often neglect the psychological impact of such a life-changing...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has joined an international call to stop the Israeli government from changing the more than 70-year-old Law of...
Though aliya numbers from South Africa were lower in 2022 than the previous year, about 1% of the South African Jewish community is making aliya annually....
The Israeli government has changed its rules about foreign students coming to Israel to complete their medical degrees with a view to returning home. To do...
“Israel will never say no to any Jewish person who wants to make aliya, certainly not to older Jews. The reason the country exists is to...
Denis Shaporenko is 36 years old, has cerebral palsy, and has lost 50% of his vision. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, he fled, making aliya...
There has been a dramatic change in the nature of aliya in the 21st century. No longer is Israel just seen as a refuge for the...
Israel is cracking down on a phenomenon known as “passport aliya”, in which people make aliya just to gain the benefits of a passport. But while...
In 2021, there were record aliyah numbers from South Africa – the highest since 1994. Israeli media reported a 50% to 70% increase on 2020. Olim...
Two weeks ago, one of the biggest groups of olim left South Africa to live in Israel. We caught up with a few of them. Hymie...
Families, yeshiva bochurs (students), lone soldiers, and a nonagenarian will be among the 87 new arrivals at Ben Gurion in Israel this week in the largest...
The director of the Israel Centre South Africa, Liat Amar Arran, says the organisation received “100 enquiries” into aliyah over the past three weeks, and that...
It was an aliyah flight that came together as if guided by the hand of G-d. The South Africans, presently the pariahs of the world thanks...
For 17 years, Rabbi Craig Kacev deftly steered the South African Board of Jewish Education (SABJE) to financial sustainability, talent development, and academic excellence. And then...
Making aliyah in normal circumstances is challenging, but under lockdown, it has become even more so. Yet, there are some surprising benefits to doing it during...
A hundred South Africans have made aliyah since lockdown began in March, as South Africa’s economic and political future remain a strong “push factor” for Jews...
Jews hit in the Nice terror attack included a US father-and-son who were killed, two elderly French sisters who are still critically injured and at least...
