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Despite Corona restrictions: 31% increase in the number of Israelis worldwide compared to last year
With the opening of Aliyah Week, the Ministry of Aliyah and Absorption and the Jewish Agency announced that Russia tops the list of immigrants with over 5,000 immigrants, followed by the United States, France, Ukraine and Ethiopia, and that the influx of immigrants is expected to increase. Is the fulfillment of the Zionist dream "
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Eli Ashkenazi
Sunday, 10 October 2021, 03:40 Updated: 06:25
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With the opening of Aliyah Week, the Ministry of Aliyah and Absorption and the Jewish Agency presented this morning (Sunday) updated data on immigration and immigrants to Israel, according to which there was a 31% increase in the number of immigrants to Israel compared to last year.
Since the beginning of the year, about 20,360 people have immigrated to Israel, compared with 15,598 in the corresponding period last year.
More than 3,340,000 immigrants have arrived in Israel to date.
At the top of the list of countries from which immigrants came since the beginning of the year is Russia with 5,075 immigrants, followed by the United States with 3,104 immigrants with the help of Nefesh Benefesh, in third place is France with 2,819 people, followed by Ukraine with 2,123 immigrants, Ethiopia with 1,589 immigrants, most of them Thanks to Operation "Create Israel" led by the Ministry of Aliyah and Absorption and the Jewish Agency following the government's decision.
As part of this operation, the immigrants from Ethiopia reunited with their families after many years of waiting.
Since the beginning of the year, 780 immigrants have immigrated from Belarus, 633 from Argentina, 490 from the United Kingdom, 438 from Brazil and 373 immigrants came to Israel from South Africa.
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"Joy over the large increase in the number of immigrants."
Minister of Immigration and Absorption Temno-Sheta with the immigrants (Photo: Official website, Noga Melsa)
"Excited every time again."
Chairman of the World Zionist Organization Hagoel with the Immigrants (Photo: Official Website, Elad Barami)
The city that absorbed the highest number of immigrants is the capital Jerusalem, where 2,184 immigrants chose to live.
Next on the list are Tel Aviv with 2,122 immigrants, Netanya with 2,031, Haifa with 1,410 and Ashdod with about 744 new immigrants.
More than half of the immigrants are young people up to the age of 35. A breakdown of the immigrant ages shows that 23.4% of the immigrants are children and teenagers aged 17-0, 33.4% of the immigrants are young people aged 35-18, 16.3% of the immigrants this year are aged 50-36, 13% aged 64 51, and 13.9% of the immigrants are over 65 years old.
The data also show that 17.3% of the immigrants are in the service, trade and marketing professions, 6.1% in the humanities and social sciences, 5.2% in the technology and engineering professions, 4.2% in the medical and paramedical professions, 3.6% in the accounting and law professions and 2.7% of the immigrants in the education professions.
With the end of the global corona crisis, the flow of immigrants to Israel is expected to increase (Photo: Official website, Noga Melsa)
The day of aliyah takes place at the height of the week of aliyah, and is celebrated every year on the seventh day of Cheshvan, near the parsha "Lech Lech" in the book of Genesis, which tells of the giving of the divine command to Abraham to go to the land of Israel. The Aliyah Day Law is intended to emphasize the "importance of aliyah to Israel as a basis for the existence of the State of Israel, its development and its design as a multicultural society."
Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano Sheta said that "I worked in the government so that immigration to Israel did not stop for a moment, even during the Corona period and the closures. Immigration to Israel is the fulfillment of the Zionist dream. I am happy about the large increase in immigrants. To assist immigrants in the process of immigration and absorption in Israel. "
The chairman of the World Zionist Organization and acting chairman of the Jewish Agency, Yaakov Hagoel, said that "the increase in the number of immigrants, despite the challenging period and the severe restrictions imposed by the global epidemic on the transition from country to country, excites me every time I hear about immigrant flights. "A strategic asset of the State of Israel and contributors to all areas of life in the country, we all need and are committed to helping them absorb them. Excellent to the immigrant, our strength is rising."
Since the outbreak of the Corona crisis, the Ministry of Aliyah and Absorption and the Jewish Agency have operated a special outline for aliyah in order to allow the flow of immigrants to Israel to continue and to help immigrants arrive in Israel despite cancellations and closures in various countries around the world.
According to the estimates of the Ministry of Aliyah and Absorption and the Jewish Agency at the end of the corona crisis in the world, the flow of immigrants to Israel is even expected to increase even more.
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