Has the Jewish Agency Lost Sight of Its Purpose?
When “aliyah” becomes a dirty word.
October 31, 2019
Has the Jewish Agency Lost Sight of Its Purpose?
When “aliyah” becomes a dirty word.
This week, the Jewish Agency for Israel, the pre-state organization created to encourage and facilitate Jews’ settlement in their ancestral homeland, announced that it is “refining” its “strategic mission.” According to its chairman, the former Labor-party leader Isaac Herzog, it will now seek to “provide concrete solutions to the greatest challenges facing the Jewish people at this time: mending the rifts among our people, building a two-way bridge between Israel and world Jewry, . . . and providing security for Jews around the world”—as well as “encouraging aliyah.” Ruthie Blum comments:
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