December 28, 2010 / 21 Tevet 5771
The year 2010 will end with a 16% increase in the number of new immigrants to Israel.
More than 19,000 olim chose to make their home in Israel.
There are significant increases in the numbers of olim from Latin America, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand, Switzerland and even India.
According to figures from the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, the year 2010 is expected to end with a 16% increase in the number of new immigrants. This is the second year in a row showing an increase in the number of new immigrants, following 10 years of declining numbers. By the end of December, the total number of olim this year from around the world will have reached 19,130. The total number in 2009 was 16,465 and in 2008 – 15,452.
Around 7,700 new immigrants, making up 40% of the total number of olim this year, came from the FSU (Former Soviet Union), eastern Europe and Germany, as opposed to 7,133 last year (an increase of 8%). From North America, the number stands at 3,980, as compared to 3,767 last year (a 6% rise). The number of olim from Latin America is to reach 1,470, compared to 1,200 last year – this is a significant rise of 19%; France: 2,040 as opposed to 1,894 last year (8% increase); Great Britain: 760 (down from 853 last year). From Ethiopia the number stands at 1,650, the rate of immigration from there being set by the government; the number last year stood at 240.
Read the whole article on: Jewish Agency for Israel"Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, that it shall no more be said, As the Lord (HaShem) lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but, As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers. Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes." (Jeremiah 16:14-17)
Note: The many fisherman are organisations like the Jewish Agency and Christian org. helping Jewish people to make aliyah, and the many hunters are rising antisemitism and anti-zionists inspired/injected by the biased anti-Israël media.