Isaac Herzog
“We are refining our strategic mission for the coming decade, based on the challenges Jews are facing today,” says Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog.
The new immigrants had all made aliyah to Israel with the assistance of the Jewish Agency just two months earlier, as they begin their lives in Israel bringing in the Jewish new year, 5780.
A year after replacing Natan Sharansky as chair of the Jewish Agency, Herzog has shaken up the decades-old organization. The million-dollar question is whether he’s in it for the long term.
“Your faces are the beautiful faces of the State of Israel in the most difficult areas of the globe, and in countries where Israel and the Jewish people are struggling to maintain a good name,” he said.
“From this place, I call on world leaders to fight rampant anti-Semitism erupting around the world, especially the shocking and dramatic rise of hate crimes in Europe, Latin America [and] the United States,” said Isaac Herzog, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
At annual gathering at the European Parliament, Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog says world “can no longer ignore the fact that Jews are once again unsafe in the streets of Europe” • Herzog asks E.U. to unite against “raging crisis.”
Jewish Agency for Israel announces first female CEO
Amira Aharonovich, 47, was named as CEO and director general.
Herzog flies to Pittsburgh to mourn, Jewish Agency sends trauma counselors
In partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in coordination with Federation, the Jewish Agency engaged with the Israel Trauma Coalition to dispatch a mission of five post-trauma and grief specialists from Israel right following the Oct. 27 shooting.
Masa Israel promotes ‘massive social musical initiative’ at GA in Tel Aviv
“Music is and has always been one of society’s greatest connectors,” said Liran Avisar Ben-Horin, CEO of Masa Israel Journey.
Herzog makes first visit to US as head of Jewish Agency
The former Zionist Union leader visited Jewish Federations in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, promoting the Jewish Agency’s mission to “inspire Jews throughout the world to connect with their people, heritage, and land, and empower them to build a thriving Jewish future and a strong Israel.”
Thousands of North American teens gather in Israel for NCSY mega-event
Held under the stars, the event featured a massive barbecue, concert and talk from incoming Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog.
His election comes at a time of a deepening strain between Israel and Diaspora Jewry due to a number of issues, including egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall, as well as the Israeli Rabbinate’s control over Jewish conversion and marriage.
