The Aliyah Connection

Incredible - history in the making! A “one-stop Aliyah shop” has now been created to streamline the Aliyah process for North American Olim.

Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Jewish Agency have signed a new agreement this week, outlining an unprecedented collaborative venture for North American Aliyah. Continue Reading »

It’s new, it’s novel and it’s all about what YOU think! It’s the new NBN-sponsored site MyAliyahIdea.com.  My Aliyah Idea is an inspired initiative for generating ideas to advance Aliyah.

NBN believes that nobody knows your Jewish community and social scene better than you do, and we think that your knowledge and experience can assist us in increasing Aliyah to Israel. If you have an idea of how to inspire, motivate, support or educate fellow Jews to make the move to Israel, we want to hear it. Continue Reading »

Nefesh B’Nefesh’s largest group flight* ever arrived with 90 Olim last week! It’s hard to be on a standard commercial El Al flight and not notice when almost every passenger sitting around you is making Aliyah. Particularly when they all don their NBN hats as the plane touches down. To follow is a photo montage documenting the  historic arrival: Continue Reading »

This week we were honored to process this summer’s second wave of Guided Aliyah Olim.  The process was basically the same as what is done on our group and charter flights. The Olim arrived at our office at a prearranged time and simply signed off on their paperwork with representatives of the Misrad Hapnim (Interior Ministry). They will receive their teudot zehut (Israeli identity cards) a few days later. We had a moment to meet a few of these new Olim: Continue Reading »

On the ever-evolving NBN website you will now see a new feature. Aliyahpedia is an all-inclusive and dynamic search engine that enables users to search and educate themselves on everything related to Aliyah, by either typing in a keyword or by category. For instance, a search using the keyword “shipping” brings up 28 articles including Tax Free Privileges, 220 Appliance Vendors, Bringing Pets, and dozens of other related entries. Categories to browse through include Aliyah Benefits, Housing, Employment, Students & Singles and much more. Continue Reading »