“My path to Judaism began at the age of ten, when my parents told me and my sister that we were Jewish. By the time I was fifteen, I decided to come to Israel on my own with the Jewish Agency’s Na’aleh program. In the eleven years I have been in Israel, I have never looked back.”

Irina Kopytova, 26, was born in Gomel, Belarus. At the tender age of 10, her parents told her and her sister that they were Jewish. The catalyst for this was the opening of the Jewish Agency’s Sunday School in their city. More