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Israel tour group (Credit: UJIA)
February 6, 2024, 12:03 pm
Israel tour applications to open on Monday, says UJIA
At least nine youth movements and organisations will offer programmes this year under the banner of the UK's biggest Israel charity
By Michelle Rosenberg
Israel tour group (Credit: UJIA)
December 20, 2023, 12:29 pm
UJIA delays launch of summer tour applications
Charity and its partners "working tirelessly to ensure that everything is in place" for.life-changing youth educational programmes in Israel
By Michelle Rosenberg
Mourners gather around the five coffins of the Kotz family during their funeral in Gan Yavne.
October 26, 2023, 4:43 pm
Israel’s social lender sets up new fund for interest-free ‘lifelines’ for war impact
Ogen offers £20k for small businesses and £12k for families hit by the Hamas attacks and the economic aftermath after donors step in
Pic: FZY
August 23, 2023, 6:05 pm
FZY sends 22 youth volunteers to Ghana on 10-day community programme
'Netina Ghana' initiative is a collaboration with the Jewish Agency for Israel
By Michelle Rosenberg
New arrivals: Olim at Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport this year (Credit: Yonit Schiller)
September 22, 2021, 10:53 am
Antisemitism and Covid: a cocktail of challenges for Jewish Agency
Irit Barash, the Jewish Agency’s head of the delegation to the UK & Western Europe, reflects on how it is helping people navigate new problems to facilitate aliyah
By Sharon Gelbach
Newborn baby (Photo by Luma Pimentel on Unsplash)
September 12, 2021, 10:27 am
Global Jewish population up to 15.2 million
Israel has 6.9 million Jews, the United States 6 million and the UK 292,000, according to the latest estimates by the Jewish Agency for Israel
By Jewish News Reporter
Men and boys at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, the Old City. (Credit: Noam Chen for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism.)
September 27, 2020, 9:14 am
Jews can still have their prayers placed in Kotel despite it being closed
Jewish Agency for Israel has started a campaign to collect the prayers and messages from Jews in Israel and around the world and pledged to place them in the Western Wall
By JTA
Then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres welcomes Natan Sharansky as he lands in Israel straight from his release in 1986 
September 24, 2020, 4:18 pm
Natan Sharansky: ‘Millions of people were on hunger strike with me’
Francine Wolfisz speaks to the Jewish human rights activist and former Soviet Refusenik about his new book, which reflects on a life spent fighting for others
By Francine Wolfisz
May 22, 2020, 10:54 am
Drum roll… Forty Under 40: The countdown continues – 30 to 21!
From leading political campaigners and an LGBT activist, to top rabbis and community organisers, we profile those tipped to shape Anglo-Jewry for years to come
By Jewish News
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog speaking at its Board of Governors meeting.
March 15, 2020, 2:11 pm
Jewish Agency sending teen emissaries back to Israel to quarantine
150 'shinshinim' will go back to Israel to spend time in isolation, in order to be able to spend passover with their families
By JTA
Visitors to the Eshkolot festival in Berlin
November 15, 2019, 12:51 pm
Berlin remembers Jewish life during the last century
Four-day Eshkolot festival celebrating art, innovation and technology that burst out of Weimar Germany, let visitors immerse themselves in the worlds of Jewish leading lights
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