Seventh Summer Western Aliyah Plane Arrives 

by Ezra HaLevi
http://www.israelnationalnews.com 
18:06 Sep 06, '06 / 13 Elul 5766

The summer's seventh planeload carrying Western immigrants to 
Israel arrived Wednesday. More than 3,000 Jews have arrived this 
summer from North America and England.  

Wednesday’s flight included, among its 240 passengers, 70 young 
single men and women, 45 families and 30 retirees - hailing from 
23 US states and Canadian provinces. The flight was organized, 
as were previous flights, by the Nefesh b’Nefesh organization, 
together with the Jewish Agency. 

Nefesh b’Nefesh co-founder Rabbi Yehoshua Fass addressed the 
new immigrants, speaking about the experience of seeing Biblical 
prophecies being fulfilled. “Walking down the aisle of the airplane, 
seeing an 85-year-old and a 5-year-old share this same process; 
seeing a couple who survived the Holocaust filling out their paperwork; 
seeing single olim [Jewish immigrants] exchange numbers - it is truly 
a time of redemption.”

Two of the newest Israelis, Oren and Ora Nidam, “knew forever” that 
they wanted to make Israel their home. The couple grew up in the 
American Jewish heartland - Ora is from Fairlawn, New Jersey and 
Oren grew up in Westchester, New York. They lived in Teaneck, 
New Jersey, but made all their decisions with Aliyah [immigration to 
Israel] in mind. 

Now, with their two-year-old daughter Kliel Amukah Tehillim and 
five-week-old son Nachman Mizmor L’David, they have finally made it. 
Ora says she looks forward to acclimating to both life in Israel and 
two-child motherhood simultaneously in their new hometown - 
Jerusalem.

Over the past four years since its inception, Nefesh b’Nefesh has 
steadily increased the numbers of immigrants it has helped move to 
Israel. As crowds of soldiers, well-wishers and Aliyah enthusiasts 
cheered for the new arrivals, Rabbi Fass promised to bring 
unprecedented numbers home next summer.