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New immigrants from North America arrive at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport on March 25, 2026. (Yonit Schiller)

April 2, 2026, 3:30 pm

Undeterred by war, North American Jews continue to immigrate to Israel

Despite security challenges and limited flights, hundreds have made aliyah in 2026

By Peter Ephross JTA

March 24, 2026, 11:21 am

Vote for the Bridge to Israel community organiser award

The inaugural MDA UK Bridge to Israel Awards will be held on Monday 27 April 2026 - and Jewish News readers have the chance to vote for the recipient in one of the categories

By JN Reporter

MDA and Birthright Volunteering Mission January 2026

January 21, 2026, 5:52 pm

A volunteering mission and the profound joy of breathing fully as a Jew

From Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to the Golan Heights - Michelle Rosenberg reflects on a trip to Israel with her daughters

By Michelle Rosenberg

September 2, 2024, 10:21 pm

OPINION: Israel is the summer ‘classroom’ of the Jewish people

'The past year will affect what we learn in the future for Israel experience programmes, writes Dr Jonathan Boyd

By Dr Jonathan Boyd

January 17, 2024, 2:50 pm

Why picking oranges in Israel is so much more than it seems

Volunteer programmes are helping rebuild the economy - and the soul

By Naomi Frankel

September 22, 2023, 4:34 pm

What’s next for the UK’s biggest Israel charity?

Amid restructuring, re-assessment and redundancies, chief executive Mandie Winston and chair Louise Jacobs chart a new course for the future

By Jenni Frazer

June 14, 2023, 1:56 pm

UJIA makes urgent ‘green line’ intervention to save Israel tour

The charity that supports tours for teens says it won’t back projects ‘over the Green Line’, the demarcation line set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Arab states

By Jenni Frazer

A road sign pointing to accommodation in Ariel, a West Bank settlement (Photo: Reuters)

August 30, 2022, 5:06 pm

OPINION: Birthright tours must never again spend the night beyond the Green Line

A young British Jewish campaigner explains why she opposed this summer's decision to take one tour to a West Bank settlement for three nights

By Dalia Blass

July 20, 2022, 1:44 pm

British Birthright participants quit trip over West Bank settlement stay

EXCLUSIVE: Demand for rooms due to the Maccabiah Games and President Biden's visit meant another option could not be found last minute, organisers said

September 6, 2019, 11:07 am

800 from former USSR united on Birthright Israel trip

Participants from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan come together in Israel for a landmark educational event

By Jenni Frazer

Screenshot shows police detaining Birthright demonstrators in New York

April 7, 2019, 10:53 am

Fifteen students arrested protesting outside Birthright offices in New York

Left-wing Jewish activists demonstrate against pro-Israel organisation over its stance on the occupation of the West Bank

By JTA

Left-wing Birthright participants with a family of Palestinians who are to be evicted from their house

December 12, 2018, 5:49 pm

Number of young US Jews going on Birthright almost halved in recent months

Ha’aretz investigation revealed drop in take-up figures ranging from 20-50 percent for its winter season

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses AIPAC 2018

August 14, 2018, 11:42 am

Israeli leaders accused of ‘sowing division’ with Nation State law by WJC head

World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder criticised leaders for provoking a 'summer of disharmony' in the diaspora

Screenshot from the Facebook video posted online

July 16, 2018, 11:43 am

American teens quit Birthright to visit Palestinian family facing eviction

Young US group abandon free trip to the Jewish state and divert to visit an Arab family being removed from their Jerusalem home

By JTA

Picture posted by Danielle Raskin on Twitter, complaining about Birthright's political position

June 29, 2018, 1:42 pm

Five US Jews abandon Birthright saying it ‘deliberately hides the truth of occupation’

Young activists claim the heritage tour for diaspora Jews is “unwilling to grapple with reality” for Palestinians

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