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About 15,000 families from all over the world immigrated to Israel Israel today

2020-10-25T07:44:51.897Z


| Jewish NewsDespite the challenges of the Corona period, many families chose to immigrate to Israel this year • The leading countries they came from: Russia, Ukraine and the USA • "Glad we decided to immigrate" Immigrants also in Corona: 7 Cheshvan is the date on which the day commemorating the aliyah to the State of Israel is celebrated. The day is excellent starting in 2016, and its role is to honor the al


Despite the challenges of the Corona period, many families chose to immigrate to Israel this year • The leading countries they came from: Russia, Ukraine and the USA • "Glad we decided to immigrate"

Immigrants also in Corona:

7 Cheshvan is the date on which the day commemorating the aliyah to the State of Israel is celebrated.

The day is excellent starting in 2016, and its role is to honor the aliyah enterprise as a basis for the existence of the State of Israel.

In the shadow of the corona, with the help of the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption since the beginning of the year, about 15,162 immigrants from various countries immigrated to Israel: the leading one is Russia, from which about 5,000 people immigrated;

Ukraine and the United States with about 2,000 immigrants each; France with 1,700 immigrants; Argentina and Brazil with about 400 immigrants each; and the list goes on.

However, it is important to say that this is a significant decrease compared to 2019, which ended with 35,586 immigrants in total.

Since the establishment of the state, about 3,316,000 immigrants have immigrated to Israel.

In 2020, most of which takes place in the shadow of the corona, the oldest immigrant immigrated last month at the age of 97 from Canada, while the youngest immigrant who immigrated was born last July, and immigrated to Israel when she was only 20 days old.

35,000 immigration files

Meanwhile, according to the Jewish Agency, since the beginning of 2020, about 35,000 new immigration files have been opened, with a 133% jump in the opening of immigration files from English-speaking countries, a 102% increase in French-speaking countries, and a 31% increase in the opening of files from Latin America.

The data also show that the upward trend in the opening of immigration portfolios continues in the second wave of the Corona: in September alone, there was an increase of more than 166% in the number of immigration portfolios opened in North America, compared to September 2019, and a 393% increase in the first half of October 2020. The period last year.

In France, there was a 169% increase in the number of cases opened in September 2020 compared to September 2019, and in the first half of October 2020 there was a 471% increase compared to the first half of October 2019.

The chairman of the Jewish Agency, Yitzhak (Buzi) Herzog: "The State of Israel has an extraordinary historical opportunity to absorb a wave of immigration of about a quarter of a million Jews from around the world within five years."

Minister of Immigration and Absorption, Pnina Tamano-Sheta, said that "Aliya Week is a great opportunity to salute the new immigrants, as well as the veterans, for their tremendous contribution to national, economic and social growth."

"We love the country and feel good here"

Jenny Salins and her children immigrated from Valladolid, Spain

"I was born in Jerusalem and at the age of 12 I finally left Israel. My parents left Israel with the whole family and went to Spain. That was 30 years ago. We came down from Israel mainly because my father had a hard time finding work here, and also because he wanted to do a doctorate there.

"My father's family is descended from Spanish martyrs, who came to Turkey after the expulsion of Spain 500 years ago. We came to Valladolid, Spain, and it was not easy. It is a place with no Jews at all. Truth be told - it is exciting to think about it. We are the first Jews to return to Valladolid after 500 sleep.

"I married a policeman from Spain. Fifteen months ago my husband was killed in an accident while on duty. It was a tragic and difficult loss. I could not live there anymore, in Spain. It hurt me. To be in this place without my husband, when everything reminds me of the past, This is very difficult for me.

"I decided to leave everything and return to my country. It's the only thing that does me good, to go back to my origins, and so I did. I left all the family and friends in Spain, took the children and the nine suitcases I packed and returned to the country. In fact, my children are new immigrants, and I am defined as a minor. I repeat that I left Israel as a girl.

"We live in Rishon Lezion - I knew I wanted a city of the sea. In Tel Aviv a little expensive. I went to Rishon to find out about the place, I knew Rishon and fell in love with it. Obviously I am happy with the decision. Israel is a warm country. "To the European culture I got used to, but my children fit in great here and have fun. We love Israel and feel good here."

"In Brazil there is nothing in Israel"

The Jablonski family immigrated from Mario de Janeiro, Brazil

In 2007, Enrique Jablonski participated in the "Year of Training" program: "I lived for four months in Kibbutz Hatzerim, worked in agriculture in the fields, did a studio, and another two months in Be'er Sheva - I worked there with an absorption center for Ethiopian Jews. For another five months I lived in Jerusalem. Training and working in Tel Aviv with the population of immigrant children, it has been an amazing year, and since then the idea of ​​immigrating to Israel has begun in me.

"I started thinking about going up last year seriously, but all my life after the training year it was in my awareness. After the child was born - I decided I was going for it.

"My grandfather is a Holocaust survivor from Poland - and after the Holocaust he came to Israel with his brother. He stayed in Israel for ten years and then left for Brazil. Grandpa's brother is still alive and living in Israel, and we have relatives from his family who live in Israel. My parents are still in Brazil.

"First of all, regardless of the corona, we wanted to make an aliyah. After the son was born it was already starting to get serious. Life in Brazil is not simple, and it is clear that even more so in the corona period.

"There is very high unemployment and the economy is in a very bad state. We are happy to be here. Our son is really happy that he can play on the street, in Brazil there is nothing here in the country."

"The land is a paradise for us"

The Rappaport family immigrated from New York, USA

Sarah and Michael Rapaport have four children, Lana (8), Saloma (6), Tiferet (3) and Avraham (2).

The family lives in Jerusalem near the Mahane Yehuda market.

According to her, they chose to live there because "the environment is relatively familiar, mainly because of the children who will gradually get used to Israel. We also have a family in the area, so it greatly facilitates adaptation and absorption in the country."

They arrived in Israel in the middle of the corona crisis, between the first wave of the eruption and the second wave.

Sarah: "My husband has been thinking about immigrating to Israel for a long time, he comes from a Zionist family. Until two years ago I did not want to, but about a year ago I was in Israel on summer vacation and since then I did not want to leave. We decided to immigrate, and within a year we were here. "Right in the middle of the corona crisis."

According to her, the whole family has to deal with distance learning: "I speak little Hebrew because I studied in a Jewish school in America, and now my husband and I are learning Hebrew in the studio of the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption through Zoom. Now, when there is no school, my daughters also learn remotely. "At Beit Yaakov, they learn over the phone (because there is no zoom), and it is a little difficult for them to understand when the teacher speaks fast. But little by little they start getting into things."

Despite the difficulty, she says that they are happy with the decision to immigrate: "We are happy that we immigrated to Israel, for us in this country it is heaven."

Source: israelhayom

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