PARIS (JTA) — A major Israeli philanthropic group with Christian funding brought its first large group of French Jewish immigrants to Israel.
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which has an annual budget of over $100 million, put the 83 new immigrants on two airplanes Monday in Paris, following a ceremony led by the group’s founder, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein.
The group has given the Jewish Agency for Israel, the semi-governmental body responsible for bringing Jewish new immigrants to Israel, more than $170 million since 1994 but stopped that funding after 2014, when the Fellowship started its own program for aliyah – …read more
Source: JTA
