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Nefesh B’Nefesh Creates Award To Recognize Outstanding Anglo Immigrants In IsraelBy Joel Leyden Israel News AgencyJerusalem, Israel --- October 5, 2013 ... Nefesh B’Nefesh, Israel's leading immigration (aliya) agency, has established an award to recognize outstanding immigrants to Israel from English-speaking countries. The Bonei Zion Prize was established by Nefesh B’Nefesh “to formally recognize outstanding Anglo olim — veteran and recent — who illustrate the spirit of modern-day Zionism by contributing in a potent manner towards developing the State of Israel,” Nefesh B’Nefesh said in announcing the prize. A panel of judges will award $10,000 prizes in five categories: science...

Olmert: Nefesh B'Nefesh Israel Aliya Stronger Than IDF (photo) Prime Minister Olmert greets and provides identity cards to Nefesh B'Nefesh immigrants from the US and Canada at Ben Gurion Airport. By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem ----September 5, 2007...... It all started with a terror attack. On the sun drenched morning of March 28, 2001, just before seven o'clock, seven Jewish teenagers were waiting for a school bus at a gas station near the Neveh Yemin Junction, not far from Kfar Saba, Israel. They were going to the Bnei Hayil Yeshiva High School in Kedumim. A Palestinian suicide bomber...

AROUND THE JEWISH WORLDWith Canadian aliyah on the rise, Nefesh B’Nefesh plane set to fly By Suzanne Wintrob David Karp Kids from North American families play at JFK International Airport while they wait for their flight to Israel, sponsored by Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel, in August 2004. TORONTO, May 15 (JTA) — It used to be that so few people made aliyah from Canada that almost no one paid attention to them when tallying immigration totals from North America. But times are changing. With a wave of Canadians preparing to move to Israel, Nefesh B’Nefesh, an...

OU Announces Aliyah Fund Drive With the goal of assisting hundreds of families to make aliyah this summer, the Orthodox Union (OU) in the United States is calling on its member synagogues across the United States and Canada to conduct fund-raising campaigns in support of a Jerusalem-based foundation dedicated to bringing North American Jews home to Israel. The drive will culminate on May 7, Israeli Independence Day. The beneficiary organization, Nefesh B'Nefesh (Jewish Souls United), was founded to revitalize aliyah from North America through financial support and other assistance to new immigrants. In July, 2002, its first year of...