| Israel |
| Written by Chris Perver |
| Thursday, 07 September 2006 00:00 |
| The
seventh planeload of Jewish immigrants from the United Kingdom and the
United States landed in Israel yesterday since this summer. The flights have
been organized by Nefesh b'Nefesh, which has been helping hundreds of US and
UK families move to Israel for the past four years. That translates into
around 3000
Jews from these two countries alone, not to mention the hundreds that
are coming back from Russia and other countries. Over 11,000
Jews have made Aliyah to Israel in the first six months of this year.
Quote: "Nefesh b'Nefesh co-founder Rabbi Yehoshua Fass
addressed the new immigrants, speaking about the experience of seeing
Biblical prophecies being fulfilled. "Walking down the aisle of the
airplane, seeing an 85-year-old and a 5-year-old share this same process;
seeing a couple who survived the Holocaust filling out their paperwork;
seeing single olim [Jewish immigrants] exchange numbers - it is truly a time
of redemption."
One of the men in the photographs wears a white T-shirt which reads, "Dear
America, Thank-you and Shalom. We have to go home now. Your friends, the
Jews". I guess that sums it all up. In spite of economic
difficulties, linguistic barriers and the security situation in Israel, many
Jews share a special affinity with God's land, and are coming in their
thousands in fulfilment of ancient Biblical prophecy.
Isaiah 49:22
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,
and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in
[their] arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon [their] shoulders.
Source YNet
News, Jewish
Agency
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