Operation Zur Israel Brings 209 Ethiopian Olim to Israel
This week, a delegation of leaders from The Jewish Federations of North America and Federation’s overseas partner The Jewish Agency for Israel, including five members of our Miami Jewish community, traveled to Ethiopia. They spent time meeting with families waiting to immigrate to Israel and visited sites of historical significance to Ethopian Jewry. The trip culminated with an emotional flights from Ethiopia for the olim who were accompanied by the delgation. Upon touching down in Eretz Israel, everyone enjoyed a celebratory ceremony at the airport attended by Minister of Aliyah and Absorption Pnina Tamano-Shata.
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Federation welcomed a delegation from the award-winning Yerucham Science Center who came to share fun with science and technology at the three Miami-Dade JCCs.
Federation-funded Beit Issie Shapiro is marking another milestone in disability inclusion with the opening of its Beit Raz campus, welcoming Israeli children from infants to age 3 with and without disabilities.
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