The Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv is operating a branch of a government body, under the guise of a cultural center, whose goal is to persuade Russian emigrants to return, according to Israeli intelligence sources.

A top Iranian Jewish community leader on Wednesday described the recent immigration of 40 Iranian Jews to Israel as a "misinformation campaign" and insisted that Jews living in the Islamic Republic were not in danger under hard-line policies of Presiden

"We must bring the Jews of Venezuela to Israel as soon as possible," says religious Zionist Member of Knesset Effie Eitam, who returned at the end of last week from a secret visit to Venezuela, worried about the Jewish community's situation there.

Evangelical Christians in the US have helped convince dozens of Iranian Jews to move to the Zionist state in recent months, offering cash incentives and claiming that Iran's tiny Jewish community is in grave danger.

Nativ, the Israeli government organization that brought Russian Jews to Israel for decades beginning in the 1950's, now has its sights set on the 120,000 Russian Jews in Germany.

To mark Israels upcoming 60th anniversary, the Absorption Ministry is launching an unprecedented campaign to return Israelis living abroad to the country by offering them a NIS 100 million ($24 million) incentives package, Yedioth Ahronot reported on Fr

Iran's official Islamic news agency reported a month ago that wealthy Iranian Jews already living in the Zionist State had offered $10,000 to every Jew in Iran who was willing to emigrate to the Zionist State.

Among the 210 new immigrants who arrived in Israel on a Nefesh BNefesh charter flight Tuesday morning were Holocaust survivors Miriam and Itamar Pollak of New Haven, Connecticut, who decided to make aliyah at the age of 71 and 78, respectively.