When Shoshanah Kahn, now 57, made aliyah from the United States with her husband and children 24 years ago, her parents were an active Los Angeles-based couple in their 60s.
Alan Greenstadt, a 69-year-old former CEO with experience in aerospace, defense and telecommunications, has been thinking about making aliyah for three or four years now.
It’s a story that may seem common, the daughter of an Israeli father who grew up in “The Valley” of Los Angeles and made Aliyah after college.
An authoritative voice and phone credit was all Gilbert Chikli needed to steal millions of euros from seasoned bankers and businessmen in his native France.
Russian non-Jews who are preparing to immigrate to Israel have been given the option of beginning their conversion to Judaism in Moscow.
Before she traded her native France for Israel, Catherine Berdah ran a successful drug store in an affluent suburb on the eastern edge of Paris.
For four years, llana Lerner Kalmanovich rode a hot and crowded bus three hours each day to reach the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she was pursuing degrees in physical education and nutrition.
Israel’s government has approved the entry of some 9,000 Ethiopians who claim Jewish descent, two years after bringing what it said was the final airlift of Ethiopians to Israel.
Until April of last year, Julia Podinovskaya felt like she had a pretty good handle on where her life was going.
Fifteen percent of West Bank settlers are American citizens.
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