The repatriation department of the Israeli embassy in Moscow has suspended the reception of Russian citizens until October 27, but then this suspension may be extended, Meduza reports. “The Repatriation Department suspends accepting visitors for the issuance of repatriate visas until October 27, 2023. Further information will be published...
"Maidan Aliyah" and "Putin's repatriation": these words describe a new phenomenon in the history of modern Israel - a sharp increase in the number of people who left and continue to leave Ukraine and Russia in recent years. Some leave from hostilities in the east of Ukraine and from the fall ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Israel is a Russian-speaking state and that the two countries share a common history and extensive family ties. Israel has the largest population of Russian Jews in the world, most of whom emigrated there from the former Soviet Union ...
TV presenter Ivan Urgant received Israeli citizenship. Sources in the country's government told RTVI about this. Urgant was issued an identity card (citizen ID card) at the airport. Now, according to a RTVi source, he needs to go to the country's Interior Ministry and get a passport there. However, Urgant himself wrote in his ...
Russian billionaire and owner of the Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich, who encountered difficulties in renewing his British visa, has become an Israeli citizen and is going to live in Tel Aviv, the BBC writes, citing the Israeli press. According to The Times of Israel, the Ministry of Internal Affairs...
The Knesset approved in the final reading a law that will make it easier for new immigrants to obtain a full-fledged Israeli passport. It will enter into force on July 26th. Meduza explains why getting an Israeli passport is now much easier. What are the new immigrants? According to the Israeli "Law of Return", every Jew can return to his historical homeland and become ...
For exactly six months, the post of Israel's Defense Minister is occupied by a repatriate from the former USSR, the head of the Israel Our Home Party, Avigdor Lieberman. The appointment itself became a sensation, just as his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs seven years ago was sensational. Over the past thirty years, sunk ...
There are 14,3 million Jews in the world today, but only slightly less than half of them live in Israel. According to the British edition of The Guardian, taking into account the descendants of mixed marriages who identify themselves as Jews, this number rises to 16,5 million. This figure corresponds to ...
Hok Hashvut, or the Law of Return, was passed in 1950 by the Knesset - this document is a legal interpretation of the ideological doctrine of Zionism. Hok Hashvut allows every Jew to return to their historical homeland and automatically receive Israeli citizenship, reports the World Forum of Russian-Speaking...
On the eve of the Passover holiday, the statistics department of the Ministry of Aliyah and Absorption summed up the results of the first quarter of this year. In total, 5 people repatriated to Israel over three months. The largest number of repatriates came from Russia - 153 people, reports...