The Hebrew term for Jewish immigration to Israel, Aliyah is one of the basic tenets of Zionism.
Aliyah is enshrined in Israel’s Law of Return which states that any Jew has the right to immigrate to Israel and acquire Israeli citizenship.
Some 800 immigrants have arrived in the country since beginning of March – 500 of them from Russia; Jewish tourists in Israel can no longer change their status to immigrants
The first group of immigrants to arrive in Israel during the coronavirus outbreak lands safely and is sent to quarantine: ‘Complete strangers [left] piles of supplies stocked outside our door just waiting for us to come home’
Group, first to make aliyah since Covid-19 pandemic hit Israel last month, will have to go into self-quarantine for 14 days
Toast Tel Aviv will meet on Sunday for an evening of public-speaking practice in English, while 30 new immigrants will spend their first two weeks in Israel in self-quarantine
Mayor of Petah Tikva, where the boy lives, and Ethiopian-born former MK Gadi Yevarkan made the request on behalf of the father, who is raising the boy alone
The Israeli boy’s Ethiopian father, who has sole custody, has been denied permanent residency, and his son has been offered to stay in the country alone
A little-known rule change has turned immigration into a bureaucratic minefield for second-generation U.S. Jews with roots in the former communist bloc
Inter Aliyah defeats Ruach Tel Aviv four to zero
Netanyahu condemns Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's remarks as 'outrageous.' Politicians and progressive clergy call for his ouster over the tirade at a rabbinical conference
Ignore the alarmist propaganda: The new Citizenship Act doesn't mean Modi is creating a 'Hindu Pakistan.' And India isn't now governed by Nazi-era Nuremberg laws
Case followed closely in both U.S. and former Soviet bloc countries where, children of Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers are widely accepted in the Jewish community
A table provided by Israel's Interior Ministry shows that thousands of Jews secretly left countries hostile to Israel
The revised data show 61% of Russian immigrants arriving since 2012 were classified as not Jewish, compared to fewer than 5% of U.S. immigrants
Over 3,000 immigrants moved to Israel from Middle Eastern and other countries with which Israel has no diplomatic relations
According to a new Hebrew-language biography, David Ben-Gurion failed at everything through World War I, at least. Later, he'd be a master of tough decisions
Tens of thousands of teen boys and men from the former Soviet Union were herded into Israeli operating rooms beginning in the '90s to undergo circumcisions. Years later, they recall the resulting trauma and pain, and the damage wrought on their sex lives
The idea of mass immigration is uneconomic for a country this rich and crowded. Immigrants should be welcome but Israel doesn’t need to be giving them aid
Plus, David Zwebner reveals Ashkelon's secret South African history, and nominations now being accepted for two prestigious awards for immigrants
The club’s representatives in IFLI’s League 2 had a night to remember, beating USSR 5-2 at home
Fed up with ‘humiliating’ treatment at the hands of the Chief Rabbinate, Russian-speaking Israelis are going public with their grievances
Investigation by The Times of Israel finds that Immigrant Integration Ministry posted stock images of people on Twitter with fabricated quotes
Two out of every three immigrants to Israel come from either Russia or Ukraine, but most aren't recognized as Jewish – which makes things like marrying, starting a family and getting buried a problem
Victory could have Inter Aliyah leapfrog into their division's top 5 ■ In other sports news, Israeli women Lacrosse team draws good results in the U.S.
Amid cumbersome extradition procedures, Jewish suspects from France and the former Soviet Union find sanctuary via the Law of Return
Sarah Debora Meyer’s teenage daughters were deported after arriving to the country last November because the ministry said they didn’t have the necessary visas
Argentine lawyer Federico Schiber allegedly convinced destitute women to be subjected to extreme violence in order to get an insurance payout. He stole their money, was tried for heading a crime ring – and found haven in Israel
A former karate teacher has been renamed in a new civil suit against Yeshiva University regarding abuse claims from the late 1970s and early ’80s. In 2015, the Jewish Agency reviewed the claims but allowed the man, who denies all wrongdoing and was never convicted, to make aliyah