The Jewish Agency presented scholarships to 1,600 students at Sapir College, situated in the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council adjacent to Sderot. More

Circles of Joy and Grief

"I write to you with mixed feelings, when joy of 60th Yom Ha'atzmaut of the State of Israel is mixed up with great pain and fury, filling all of us on the difficult events since Friday in communities of surrounding Gaza Strip, which paid a terrible price with the death of Jimmy Kedoshim Z"L, member of Kibbutz Kfar Aza on the border with the Gaza Strip." - Zeev Bielski  More

Jewish Agency Chairman Zeev Bielski stated, “receiving the Israel Prize on Israel’s 60th anniversary is a symbolic expression of the central contribution of the Jewish Agency to the establishment of the State of Israel and to the strengthening of Israeli society over the last 80 years. More