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How Your Dollars Help
Meeting the Needs of our Brothers and Sisters in Israel

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• On July 25th, the Jewish Agency for Israel led a historic rescue mission which brought to Israel six Iraqi Jews, who had been separated from their family and friends for some 50 years. For two weeks, in cooperation with the American Armed Forces and HIAS, the Department worked out the details of this secret operation.
  
• Last week alone, 447 Jews from the former Soviet Union, France, Latin America, and North America made aliyah. So far in 2003, more than 12,000 Jews have made aliyah.
  
• The “Home and Together” program was launched bringing together three major absorption initiatives: The “Family-to-Family” volunteer program, which pairs new and veteran olim; employment counseling and programs; and community coordinators. These initiatives are designed to help ease and expedite the olim's social absorption process in Israel, and ultimately encourage greater aliyah. Some 500 families have already signed up for the "Family-to-Family" program.
  
• More than 1,300 Israeli counselors worked at Jewish summer camps across the United States, including 4 at Camp Mildale in Baltimore, helping to bring Israel to our summer camps thus strengthening the connection between American youth and Israel.

Thanks to your contribution to THE ASSOCIATED annual campaign, we are able to stand by our pledge to work with our overseas partners to preserve and enhance Jewish life around the world.

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