A
new lobby in the Knesset will seek to improve the absorption of olim
from the West. The lobby will be established formally by MKs Gilad
Erdan (Likud) and Yoel Hasson (Kaduima) on Tuesday.
"There
are special issues that olim from the west need to deal with and we
want to make sure that the State of Israel is prepared to help them,"
Hasson told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
The Tuesday meeting at the Knesset will be attendee by private
aliya organizations, Nefesh B'Nefesh and AMI, the Jewish Agency,
Absorption Minister Ya'acov Edri and individuals interested in
increasing aliya.
40-45 percent of the world's Jews resides in the United States
and together with France and Britain constitutes some 90 percent of
Diaspora Jewry. This demographic reality has led the governement to
seek new ways with which to encourage so-called "aliya by choice."
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