250 North American Jews immigrate to Israel

Two-hundred fifty North American Jews are to immigrate to Israel. The planeload of immigrants, scheduled to land Dec. 28 at Ben-Gurion International Airport, is the seventh such flight sponsored in 2005 by Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that facilitates immigration for Jews from the United States and Canada.

The chartered flight marks the culmination of a year in which the largest number of Jews from North America has immigrated to Israel since 1984. The Jewish Agency for Israel, which works in partnership with Nefesh B’Nefesh, said that this year, more than 3,000 Jews have chosen to settle in the Jewish state.