Jewish Agency Update Issue 8 (December 26, 2006)

Senator Lieberman Moved by Visit to Jewish Agency Absorption Center

"This is the reason the United States Administration supports the Jewish Agency's efforts to absorb people coming from impoverished countries," said US Senator Joseph Lieberman as he and his wife Hadassah lit the seventh candle of Chanukah with new immigrants from Ethiopia at the Mevasseret Zion Absorption Center.
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A Chanukah Present for Sderot's Children

The streets of Sderot and the Gaza perimeter communities were deserted this Chanukah in the face of escalating rocket attacks. But the Jewish Agency gave over 5000 youth and thousands of children and their families a real holiday celebration. Read more

Environmental Youth Program Aims to Rebuild Coexistence in the Galilee

In the wake of strained relations between Jews and Arabs in the Galilee following the recent war, the Jewish Agency for Israel, in cooperation with the Society for the Protection of Nature, is launching a groundbreaking environmental coexistence youth program
- Birds Know No Borders. Read more

An Israeli Family
Opens its Heart

Through its groundbreaking AT HOME TOGETHER program established in 2003 with the support of its partners around the world, the Jewish Agency mobilizes Israeli citizens to "adopt" new immigrants during their first two years in Israel. Nowhere was this more poignant than for lone soldiers who served in the Lebanon war. Read more

The Jewish Agency stands on the threshold of launching "A New Tomorrow" educational program that will serve 30,000 students in the North and Western Negev. We thank our partners who, out of care, solidarity, and responsibility, enable us to implement critical programs for rebuilding the North and support the Sderot and Gaza Perimeter communities that are still under attack. Read more

Light a Candle
for Hope Campaign
Shines Brightly
This Chanukah, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Ynet News and the World Zionist Organization launched a global campaign to light a virtual Chanukah candle in solidarity with Israel's kidnapped soldiers and their families. Read More

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