Nefesh B’Nefesh: Aliyah during and after COVID 19
June 16, 2021 | International
The pandemic has brought with it an “unprecedented” surge in Jews contacting Nefesh B’Nefesh about making aliyah.
Marc Rosenberg, Nefesh B’Nefesh Vice President of Diaspora Partnership, in an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva, said that when the world began shutting down last March at the start of the pandemic, six weeks later they began to received a flood of phone calls, emails, meeting requests sand applications from interested Jews.
The amazing increase was approximately 200 percent higher than in normal times.
“It was a really big challenge for the organization,” he said.
Up until today, those statistics have remained relatively stable, with the pandemic-era increase fluctuating between 170 and 200 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels…
(Excerpts from Israel National News)
