The Prophesized In-Gathering Of Jews In Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

Lots of people don't realize that the continuing immigration to  Israel had been prophesized long ago.  The prophecy of the ingathering of Jews (known in Hebrew as Kibbutz Galuyot) is a foundational tenet in Jewish eschatology, promising that God will gather the scattered Jewish people from the "four corners of the earth" and restore them to the Land of Israel in the end of days.  Well, it's been happening, right in our very own time;  hard to believe, isn't it?   This prophecy is primarily found in Isaiah 11:12, where God promises to assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather the dispersed of Judah from the "four corners of the earth."                                       

 Joshua entered Canaan with 601,730 Israelites (Jews).  They had been prisoners of Egypt for the past 400 years building storage buildings for the Egyptians.   Israel's Jewish population passed the 6 million mark for the first time in 2013. According to data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics that year, the milestone was considered symbolically significant as it was equivalent to the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. Yes, we lost 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.

Ofra Haza (Hebrew: עפרה חזה; 19 November 1957 – 23 February 2000) was an Israeli singer, songwriter, and actress, commonly known in the Western world as "the Madonna of the East", or "the Israeli Madonna". Of Yemenite-Mizrahi descent, Haza performed music known as a mixture of traditional Middle Eastern and commercial singing styles, fusing elements of Eastern and Western instrumentation, orchestration and dance-beat, as well as lyrics from Mizrahi and Jewish folk tales and poetry.

                    Some Jews From Yemen, Ofra Haza's line

The largest waves of Jewish immigration (Aliyah) to Israel came from the former Soviet Union (mainly Russia and Ukraine), followed by mass exoduses from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries.  When: The largest influx occurred following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, with continued arrivals well into the 2000s, although when I made Aliyah in 1980, lot of Russians had already arrived in Haifa.  When: Following Israel's independence in 1948 and throughout the 1950s, large populations fled or were expelled from Arab nations. Major contributors include Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, and Tunisia.

Jews from Eastern and Central Europe can by the hundreds of thousands driven by the Holocaust.  They helped with the  founding of the state, and came as subsequent post-war waves from places like Romania, Poland, and Hungary in the late 1940s and 1950s.

A lawyer from Kenya was one of my pen pals..As I remember, he came to do his milueem and finally moved his family to Israel.  He's one I admired very much.  

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                   2024 Summer Olympics
• Gashau Ayale: one of many outstanding runners from Ethiopia Won gold for Israel's team at the 2025 European Athletics Championships and has been a top finisher in elite international races.  Ayale was born in the village of Gojam in Ethiopia to Tabak (his father) and Tesfia (his mother), and is Jewish. He was born into the Beta Israel ethno-religious community of Ethiopian Jews. 

Ethiopians came by the 10s of thousands by different airlifts. 

•  Notable organized airlifts, such as Operation Moses (1984) and Operation Solomon (1991), brought significant communities from Ethiopia.  
• This divine promise of restoration is a major focal point across the Hebrew Bible, emphasizing the ultimate redemption and return of the exiles.
  
                              made aliyah from France
  

The rising tide of anti-Semitism and fear of terror attacks prompted the largest immigration of Jews to Israel from Western Europe in history during 2015. The Jewish Agency reported that 9,880 Western European Jews made aliyah to Israel in 2015, the largest annual number ever recorded. The vast majority of these immigrants (7,900) came from France, where there were two large national terror attacks as well as many individual violent attacks against Jews during the year. An estimated 800 of these individuals made aliyah from England. In total, 2015 saw 31,013 Jewish individuals from around the globe make Aliyah to Israel, a 12-year high.

Approximately 135,000 Jewish Americans have made Aliyah to Israel since the country's establishment in 1948. In recent years, an average of 3,500 to 4,000 North Americans immigrate to Israel annually. Driven by a surge in Zionist solidarity, 4,150 Jewish individuals relocated from North America to Israel, which marked a four-year high.

Mordechai Deluca never considered delaying his move to Israel from the United States because of the war with Iran. If anything, the opposite is true. “My worry was, how could I get there as fast as possible?” said Deluca, 39, who arrived in Israel on March 9, just eight days after the war with Iran began.  Deluca, who grew up in North Carolina, said that being physically present in Israel during such a crucial time was important to him. He spent last year’s war between Israel and Iran in Washington, D.C., and “being so far away made me feel so much more powerless,” he said. Deluca had first thought about making aliyah, or immigrating to Israel, after he went on a Birthright Israel trip 20 years ago. His desire intensified after Oct. 7, 2026 which he spent in Israel, and where he attended a funeral for a lone soldier who didn’t have immediate family in the country.                                          

                    My mother's Bon Voyage party before leaving for Israel

I made aliyah in 1980 with my husband and a German shepherd.  I had to return by end of 1985 due to the illness of my son back home in Oregon.  Sometimes that can happen, especially with American Jews, I think. Then I was a Yored.   The English cannot do that as they lose their citizenship with England by accepting it from Israel.  That's why I started blogging by 2004;  trying to defend Israel.  

Following their expulsion and after the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 CE, the majority of the Jews were dispersed throughout the world. The Jewish national idea, however, was never abandoned, nor was the longing to return to their homeland. Throughout the centuries, Jews have maintained a presence in the Land, in greater or lesser numbers; uninterrupted contact with Jews abroad has enriched the cultural, spiritual and intellectual life of both communities.

 

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