Newscaster: Prime Minister Netanyahu was on hand today to welcome 238 new immigrants from North America who arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport. The new Olim were greeted by singing and dancing, well-wishers and a number of public figures, including Jewish Agency chairman, Natan Sharansky. Netanyahu told the crowd, the group that was brought to Israel with the help of the "Nefesh B''Nefesh" organization that for the first time in 2,000 years there''s going to be more Jews in Israel than outside it . He noted that Israel''s Jewish population was fast approaching 6 million.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: Our whole history since that in the last 2,000 has been to come back to this land, reestablish our independent state and our ability to control our fate and our destiny, and that involves the ingathering of the exiles, that''s the number 1 base for the reestablishment of Israel and for the continuation of the State of Israel. When we say welcome home, we mean it in a historical sense and in the personal sense. Welcome home , ברוכים הבאים הביתה.

Newscaster: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu .