The initiative aims to ease the transition of young immigrants who arrive in Israel without immediate family into both the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli society.

So far, KKL-JNF has provided a scholarship of NIS 4,000 to 1,670 students from the Gaza Envelope and Sderot.

'We have friends around the world who didn’t know Israeli park accessibility is very good so they didn’t come to Israel for many years. Now they come.'

An annual Yom Hashoah event held in Martyr's Forest, will this year pay tribute to Rabbi Moshe Shimon Pessach, a rabbinic and communal leader in Greece whose efforts saved the Jewish community of Volos.