Aliyah is immigration to Israel based on Israel’s Law of Return (1950). This is one of the founding laws of the state of Israel which allows any Jew, child of a Jewish person, or grandchild of a Jewish person to immigrate to Israel and receive Israeli citizenship. Aliyah is subject to the law of Return...
Read MoreThe work of Ezra International began in 1995 in Ukraine in direct response to a vision God gave American businessman, Mel Hoelzle. The Jewish people had been free to leave the Soviet Union after its collapse in 1991 but many were held back to a wall of poverty – not having the money to pay for their trips to the Israeli Consul or their foreign passports. Ezra started work in Ukraine, but the work has since expanded to 8 other fSU countries, South America and several countries in Europe.
It costs an average of £360 to help one Jewish person home to Israel. A monthly gift of £30.00 will help one person home over one year. However no gift is too small - or too large!! All your donations help in the process of helping Jewish people home and each one is significant. Thank you for your help.
On March 12, a mother and daughter from Turkmenistan, from a remote village in the Lepab district – Sheker M and Gulzire - contacted us. The women had never travelled outside their village, they barely speak Russian, only a little Uzbek. They are very small and looked helpless...
Making aliyah for our family – my husband Gogita and I and our two sons – Tevdore and Saba – is important for several reasons. One of the main reasons is my Jewish roots; another is to overcome our poverty here and finally to give our children a better future...
Our children and grandchildren left for Israel before the war that engulfed all of Ukraine. We had no great desire to leave Ukraine, despite the fact that the children insisted that we come to them immediately. It was so hard to part with most of our lives that had been spent here. My wife and I weighed the pros and cons of repatriation to Israel for a long time. There were many doubts and fears. A very weighty argument in favor of staying in Ukraine is that our age limits us in many ways. We will not be able to work like young people, it will be difficult for us to adapt to new living conditions...