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The Hebrew word aliyah means "ascent" or "going up". Jewish tradition views traveling to the Land of Israel as an ascent, both geographically and metaphysically. In one opinion, the geographical sense preceded the metaphorical one, as most Jews going on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, which is situated at approximately 750 meters (2,500 feet) above ...
Aliyah. Aliyah from Ethiopia is the immigration of the Beta Israel people to Israel. Early forms of Zionism have existed in Ethiopia since the mid 19th-century, [1] as shown in the 1848 letters from the Beta Israel to Jews in Europe praying for the unification of Jews. A year after the first letter was sent, Daniel Ben Hananiah and his son were ...
Due to demand from the new immigrants, many Russian language newspapers appeared, and with the development of the multichannel television in Israel during the 1990s, many Russian channels started being rebroadcast in Israel. And in November 2002, a new Israeli-Russian channel, Israel Plus, emerged. Seven Russian newspapers were also established.
The Second Aliyah ( Hebrew: העלייה השנייה, romanized : HaAliyah HaShniya) was an aliyah (Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel) that took place between 1904 and 1914, during which approximately 35,000 Jews, mostly from Russia, [1] with some from Yemen, [2] immigrated into Ottoman Palestine . The Second Aliyah was a small part of ...
Historical Jewish population. Yom HaAliyah. v. t. e. Nefesh B'Nefesh ( Hebrew: נפש בנפש, lit. 'Soul to soul'), or Jewish Souls United, is a nonprofit organization, promotes, encourages and facilitates aliyah ( Jewish immigration to Israel) from the United States and Canada. [ 2 ] The organization aims to remove or minimize the financial ...
The First Aliyah ( Hebrew: העלייה הראשונה, romanized : HaAliyah HaRishona ), also known as the agriculture Aliyah, was a major wave of Jewish immigration ( aliyah) to Ottoman Palestine between 1881 and 1903. [ 1][ 2] Jews who migrated in this wave came mostly from Eastern Europe and from Yemen, stimulated by pogroms and violence ...
Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel. Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel (AACI) is a non-profit organization of American and Canadian Jews who have made Aliyah to Israel. [ 1] AACI is a resource center for Israel's English-speaking population. AACI assists its members with all facets of Aliyah and absorption into ...
Yom HaAliyah, or Aliyah Day (Hebrew: יום העלייה), is an Israeli national holiday celebrated annually according to the Jewish calendar on the tenth of the Hebrew month of Nisan to commemorate the Jewish people entering the Land of Israel as written in the Hebrew Bible, which happened on the tenth of the Hebrew month of Nisan (Hebrew: י' ניסן). [1]