Among those arriving include students from former Soviet republics and members of Bnei Menashe ‘lost tribe’ from India
Israel celebrated its annual Aliyah Day with a week of incoming flights filled with hundreds of new Jewish immigrants, olim in Hebrew, from the former Soviet republics, Belarus and northeast India.
After lower aliyah numbers due to the pandemic, this year, the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) planned an entire “Aliyah Week” rather than marking just one day for the recently established observance.
The word, aliyah, a Hebrew word that literally means “to ascend or rise,” became the official term for immigration to Israel in the 1950s.
