Nefesh B'Nefesh's second summer chartered aliyah flight, through El AL airlines, arrived in Israel Tuesday morning. The flight brought 200 new immigrants from North America.
The oldest immigrant is 90 and the youngest is 4 months old. 16 US States and 3 Canadian provinces were represented. The new immigrants will be moving to 28 cities throughout Israel.
Among the immigrants was Kevin Schreiber of New York, a pediatrician who arrived in Israel with his wife and three children. Schreiber brought with him a 250-year-old Torah scroll which originated in an ancient Krakow synagogue.
Schreiber, his son and the Torah scroll at Ben Gurion Airport (Photo: Sasson Tiram)
The scroll was hidden in an ancient books' library during World War II and forgotten there, until a relative of Schreiber found it during a trip to Poland in 1988, and decided to take it with him to the US. The scroll finally landed in its final destination Tuesday.
Over the course of the summer, more than 2,200 North American and British Jews are expected make aliyah through Nefesh B'Nefesh, on seven specially-chartered and eight group aliyah flights on El Al.
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