
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, center, greeted the 232 new immigrants from North America who arrived July 7 in Israel on a special flight, part of the joint venture between
Nefesh B'Nefesh and the Jewish Agency. Among them were Yehuda and Aviva Zuller of Staten Island, NY; their son Gilad, age three, is named after abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured one week before Gilad Zuller was born. "I want relive the moment when I made aliyah and went to Jerusalem - it felt as if all the Jews of Israel and the world were there with me. When I see you, I have that same feeling again," Sharansky, a former Soviet-era refusenik, told the group at a ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport. "After 2,000 years, you are coming home."
Credit: JAFI