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Foundations for Securing the Jewish Future

As the authentic global Jewish partnership, the Jewish Agency has brought the Jewish world together since 1929 to do the impossible. Building the State of Israel; bringing 3 million Jews home. Sure, we’ve made history together, but does anyone think the issues we face today are any less monumental? Think again.  The issues we face today are complex and the solutions certainly not easy. Of course, neither were those that faced generations before us. The good news is one more thing we’ve learned along the way: when we partner with purpose, anything is possible.

Securing the success of new immigrants

The core belief of the Jewish Agency is a strong Jewish future requires a strong Israel at its heart. Yet Israel in the 21st century continues to be embattled on all fronts—both external and internal. It is clear that the existential challenges to the modern Jewish homeland are far from over. Israel’s very future and its character will be shaped by the actions we take today. Our unparalleled experience has shown us how vital aliyah was in building a strong Jewish state. That task is not over. At this next critical stage of building a modern, Western-style democracy based on Jewish values aliyah will continue to be the source of Israel’s strength.

Securing the future for young immigrants alone in Israel  

Securing the future for vulnerable new immigrants  

Educational and professional success for new immigrants 

Equal opportunity for Israel’s high-risk populations

It will take that same global force of commitment to finally confront the challenge of transforming Israel’s social and geographic periphery. The gross disparity of social, economic and educational advantage today threatens to cripple Israeli society. These gaps which have been pervasive for decades are growing. This is an issue that can no longer languish in the wings. When every third child in Israel is living in disadvantage we’ve hit the wall. That’s not the Israel that its founders envisioned. That’s not the Israel that we have all worked so hard to build. Israel in the 21st century will in every way reflect our collective best efforts to create truly transformative impact for at-risk youth and communities. The Jewish Agency for Israel is leading that change.

Equal opportunity for Israel’s at-risk youth  

Transforming Israel’s social and geographic periphery  

Women’s health and equal opportunity initiatives  

Equal opportunity for minority populations  

Advancing support for elderly and needy immigrants

Securing the future of our people

But the issues challenging the Jewish future lie not only within Israel. What will a Jewish future look like that is comprised of isolated individuals who acknowledge their Jewish cultural identity but have no connection and engagement on any level with Jewish community? That in no way feels part of a global Jewish family? How sustainable is the transcendent power of the Jewish people to move forward into the future without a belief in the value of peoplehood? And in the 21st century, what would Jewish peoplehood look like without a thriving Israel at its heart? Using the power of Israel itself to connect and engage, the Jewish Agency is leading to way to connect the Jewish world’s next generation through powerful, transformative experiences.

Connecting the Jewish world’s next generation  

Strengthening worldwide Jewish communities  

 
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Throughout the Jewish world, we are losing more than 100 Jews every single day.

Close to 85% of new immigrants to Israel come from communities where living Jewishly is increasingly threatened.

Given our support, even the most vulnerable new immigrant children and youth can successfully integrate.

“The educational and socioeconomic gaps that currently exist between central Israel and communities on the geographic periphery are both alarming and disheartening.” Ted Sokolsky, president, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

The most dramatic rise in the number of children from disadvantaged families is in Israel’s social and geographic periphery: the Negev and Galilee.

Over the last few years the growth rate of the population of the Negev has declined and even internal migration in the area has been negative since 1996.

According to
a 2007 study*

A declining attachment of young Jews to Israel over a wide variety and large number of indicators testifies to the breadth, depth and irrefutable nature of that decline.

Each Jewish age group is less Israel-attached than its elders, suggesting we are in the midst of a long-term and ongoing decline in Israel attachment.


*From “Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and Their Alienation from Israel” by Steven M. Cohen and Air Y. Kerman with the assistance of Lauren Blitzer, The Jewish Identity Project of Reboot, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies. 2007
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