Department for the Promotion of Aliya co-organized a rally at Columbia University campus where hundreds of activists and students chanted “Am Yisrael Chai” to call for an end to hatred towards the Jewish community.
July 5, 1950, became a landmark date for the Jewish people and the State of Israel: on this day, the Knesset unanimously adopted the Law of Return, securing the right of every Jew to repatriate to Israel.
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel presented updated data on the Jewish population both in Israel and around the world.