Christian Group Helps Ethiopian Jews Make Aliyah to Israel - CBN News

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Christian Group Helps Ethiopian Jews Make Aliyah to Israel

CBN News 12-29-2017

Eighty-two Ethiopian Jewish immigrants landed at the Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv last week, bringing to 1,200 the total number of Jews from the East African nation relocated to Israel by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.

The Christian group is helping the Israeli government relocate 1,300 members per year of this ancient Jewish community until all of the remaining 9.000 Falash Mura tribe are reunited with their families in Israel.

A decision concerning the second year of these flights is still tied up in the Israeli cabinet. However, once approved, the ICEJ has promised to raise the necessary funding needed in order to continue to make this dream a reality.

In 2017, the ICEJ has donated $1.2 million toward the immigration project, including funds to help the immigrants transition to a new language and culture. Donations for the project have come from around the world, including generous donations from African Christians.

"The great ingathering of the Jewish people to Eretz Israel is still continuing and it is a real privilege and joy for our organization to play such a central role in this historic return to Zion," said Dr. Jürgen Bühler, President of the ICEJ said in a statement.

"We know that these latest arrivals from the Ethiopia community will never be the same as they rejoin their families and become fully part of the modern miracle of Israel," he continued. "Some of these families have been separated now for over two decades, and so it a special honor for us to help bring them back together here in the Jewish homeland."

In total, the ministry assisted more than 3,000 Jews to relocate in 2017, including from Ethiopia (1,200), Russia (1,100), Belarus (800), Ukraine (70), and India (50). Since its founding in 1980, the ICEJ has helped nearly 140,000 Jews return to their biblical homeland or roughly ten percent of all Jews who have relocated in that time period.

This represents an investment of over $50 million in the relocation efforts, with most of the assisted Jews coming from the former Soviet republics but also thousands from Western Europe, North and South America, the Bnei Menashe from India, and the Kaifeng Jews from China.

Founded in 1980, the ICEJ is considered the largest global pro-Israel Christian ministry, with branch offices established in over 95 nations and a reach into more than 170 countries worldwide.

Jim CLINT FAMILY UPDATE - Supporting the Aliyah of the Jewish people - September 2017 Northern Ireland

Jim CLINT FAMILY UPDATE September 2017

 - Supporting the Aliyah of the Jewish people

Northern Ireland

Sept. 4, 2017

Greetings from our family to you who love Israel and the Jewish people,

We continue to praise the LORD for His faithfulness. Over this last few weeks the "2nd hand clothing to Israel" program has steadily picked up pace. We've really been encouraged to see how Christians on the island of Ireland are beginning to stand with the Jewish people. 

Recently I made a 350 mile round trip to River of Life fellowship in the city of Athlone in the Republic of Ireland. I was able to share about Ezra UK's Aliyah work in Eastern Europe and the FSU countries. I was blessed to have spent time with pastor Trevor Hill and his wife Diane. It's encouraging how the LORD is opening up speaking opportunities in southern Ireland at this time.

Pastor Trevor Hill, Diane Hill, Jim Clint

This coming week we'll have Ezra's Turkish representative visit Northern Ireland. Please pray that the LORD will use her to touch the hearts of all who listen to her. Turkey is quickly becoming a dangerous country for the remaining Jewish who live there, pray that they will make it home to Israel soon.  

With the Lord's help, we are helping Jews make aliyah to Israel. Please join us in prayer and support.

Blessings,

Jim Clint

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Record 700 Brazilian Jews Set to Make Aliyah in 2016 - JNS BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

Record 700 Brazilian Jews Set to Make Aliyah in 2016

By JNS November 22, 2016   BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“And say ye: ‘Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks unto Thy holy name, that we may triumph in Thy praise.’” I Chronicles 16:35 (The Israel Bible™)

The Jewish Agency for Israel said that 2016 will see a record 700 Brazilian Jews immigrate to Israel.

According to the Jewish Agency, 650 Brazilian Jews have already made aliyah this year, with around another 50 expected by the end of December. This is up from 496 new Brazilian immigrants in 2015 and 280 in 2014.

“The Brazilian Jewish community is a warm, Zionist community with strong ties to Israel,” Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said during a visit to Brazil. “Since Israel’s establishment, more than 15,000 Brazilian Jews have immigrated to Israel, contributing to the Jewish state’s national character and strength.”

The head of the Jewish Agency delegation in Brazil, Revital Poleg, noted that the increase in aliyah is tied to the ongoing economic crisis in Brazil, but is also rooted in the strong ties the country’s Jewish community has to Israel.

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'Israel Is an Amazing Country!' Former Anti-Semite to Make Aliyah - CBN News Dale Hurd

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'Israel Is an Amazing Country!' Former Anti-Semite to Make Aliyah (from Hungary)

09-23-2016

CBN News Dale Hurd

A former rising star in a Hungarian party known for anti-Semitic views will move to Israel and become an Israeli citizen. Csanad Szegedi told the newspaper Ma'ariv that he will make aliyah with his wife and two children.

In a 2013 interview with CBN News, the 34-year old Szegedi, who was once widely viewed as an anti-Semite, shared how he discovered that he was Jewish.

When rumors of his Jewish ancestry started swirling on the Internet, Szegedi went to talk to his 94-year-old grandmother, who he never knew was Jewish.

"She opened up and she talked about her life and how she was sent to Auschwitz and how our family was annihilated," he recalled. "I was shocked -- first of all because I realized the Holocaust really happened."

At first, Szegedi tried to hide his Jewishness and act like nothing had happened. But he realized he couldn't stay in his party, Jobbik. 

"It started such a crisis in my consciousness," he told CBN News. "I realized I can't take part in any organization that has anything to do with anti-Semitism. And after my Jewish origins were disclosed, they really didn't want to see me in the party anymore."

He contacted a local rabbi, who first thought it was a joke. Szegedi started taking classes at the synagogue, learning Hebrew and the meaning of kosher and Shabbat.

Szegedi said his life completely changed.

"It's changed everything. It's like being re-born, and the changes in my life are still happening," he said. "I had this set value system that I had to change completely. I had had this value system until I was 30 and I had to admit that it was all wrong and to find the will to change."

In the interview with Ma'ariv, Szegedi said, "Israel is an amazing country, and I believe that every Jew who lives in the Diaspora seriously considers making aliyah to Israel, at least once in his life. After the nightmares that my relatives underwent in the Holocaust, my family and I very much want to be part of the positive dream that Israel constitutes for us."

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10,000 French Jews, 3,000 Americans expected to Make Aliyah in 2016 – Israel News By JNI Media

Some of the 95 children who made Aliyah on a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight facilitated in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah & Immigrant Absorption, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth Le’Israel, and JNF-USA. (Photo: Shahar Azran)

10,000 French Jews, 3,000 Americans expected to Make Aliyah in 2016 – Israel News

By JNI Media February 5, 2016   BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.'” (Deuteronomy 1:8)

The coming year is expected to see another increase in the number of Jews immigrating to Israel, this after more than 30,000 Jews made Aliyah last year, a record for the past 15 years. In 2016, some 10,000 Jews are expected to emigrate from France alone; 3,000 Jews are expected to arrive from the United States; 7,000 from Russia and an additional 7,000 from Ukraine.

“We are monitoring the intensifying anti-Semitism in Europe, while at the same time the government ministries are preparing to absorb the olim,” the head of the Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, MK Avraham Naguisa, said Wednesday. “Their absorption is a national mission and a Zionist, social and economic window of opportunity for the Jewish nation, the State of Israel and Israeli society.”

Russian Jewish Congress President Yuri Kanner told the committee that the level of anti-Semitism in Russia is low and decreases continuously, but systematic anti-Semitism, or media-related anti-Semitism will increase immigration to Israel. According to Kanner, nationalistic parties have significant influence on the level of anti-Semitism in Russia. He recalled that some two years ago a yeshiva student in Moscow was beaten because he was Jewish, and noted that those who commit anti-Semitic acts in the various Russian provinces are punished.

Unlike in Europe, the relations between the Jewish and Muslim community in much of Russia are good, Kanner said, adding that Jewish-Muslim relations are not as good in Dagestan, Chechnya and the Caucasus regions.

Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldschmidt, who also serves as the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, said, “Europe’s Jews are like a person walking on train tracks; from one side there is the train of radical Islam, and from the other there is the anti-religious reaction of old Europe. Today, after the Islamic attack in Paris, Europe understands that Islamic terror is its problem as well, not only Israel’s.”

Goldschmidt said the expected immigration to Israel will weaken the French Jewish community, which he said should be strengthened with educational and social activities.

Yogev Karasenty, director of combating anti-Semitism at the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, told the committee that last year had seen a record number of anti-Semitic attacks, carried out mainly by Muslims. Nearly all the attacks committed by Muslims were carried out by Muslims who were born and educated in Europe, and not by refugees, he said.

Karasenty criticized some European countries for their lack of deterrent punishment against anti-Semites, and mentioned that the denial of the Eastern European nations’ role in the Holocaust is becoming more widespread. Karasenty said 63 percent of French Jews have experienced anti-Semitism. According to him, the Israeli government allocates $50 million each year towards strengthening Jewish identity and education abroad, while the Jewish communities in the Diaspora spend a similar amount.

Former Minister of Immigration and Absorption Sofa Landver (Yisrael Beitenu) said the full potential of the immigration of Jews from France has yet to be realized. “We could have reached 15,000 [French] olim this year, not only 8,000,” she said. “The best response to the anti-Semitic attacks is improved absorption. There is no place for [a lagging] bureaucracy in this national mission.”