With housing costs rises at their highest and a growing affordability gap, real estate sector professionals anticipate a difficult year ahead

Sarah Mintz, who was born Maritza Rodríguez, was a hugely famous TV personality who gave up her career to move to the Jewish state and live a religious lifestyle

Aliya numbers dropped this year, likely due to coronavirus, but Agency has seen huge increase in number of inquiries from around the world

Initiative pushed for by deputy minister Yevarkan as some 8,000 Ethiopians, separated from their families for over 20 years, wait in Ethiopia for Israel to allow them to immigrate

Diaspora Affairs Minister Tzipi Hotovely says Jerusalem exploring ways to help, in talks with community leaders, but Diaspora Jews yet to formulate concrete needs

Annual aliya fair of some 1,250 people in Teaneck, NJ, canceled after local man diagnosed with potentially deadly virus

Thousands of youths came to Israel by themselves from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s hoping their families would follow. Pragmatic reality had other plans

Central Bureau of Statistics figures show that 28,099 new immigrants arrived in Jewish state, with over two-thirds moving from former Soviet countries