Keren Hayesod

Aliyah and the future of northern Israel: turning solidarity into opportunity

Aliyah is about more than arrival. By creating opportunities for new Olim and rebuilding northern Israel, the country can turn solidarity into lasting growth and stronger communities.

Edna Weinstock-Gabay CEO & Director General Keren Hayesod, United Israel Appeal
(L-R, clockwise): Elliott Brandt, Bernard Kaminetsky, Russell Robinson, and Bruce Leboff

No. 48: Russell Robinson, Bruce Leboff, Elliot Brandt, and Bernard Kaminetsky

SAM GRUNDWERG,  outgoing Word Chairman of  Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal.

Leading through the storm

Ambassador Eli Vered Hazan, appointed new World Chairman of Keren Hayesod, July 13, 2026.

Keren Hayesod appoints Ambassador Eli Vered Hazan as next World Chairman


Board members deny politics in new Keren Hayesod CEO losing job

“I don’t think the decision was political,” a board member said. “If there was pressure from the prime minister’s family, she would not have been chosen in the first place.”

Polly Bronstein, executive director of Dakenu

Zero interest loans offered to Jewish communities to keep them afloat

The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Hayesod and Jewish Federations of North America, are launching the 'COVID-19 Loan Fund for Communities in Crisis.'

Jewish Agency women pay tribute to Rosie the Riveter in honor of International Women's Day.

As coronavirus affects Italian Jews, Israeli NGOs step up to offer support

Chairman of The Jewish Agency for Israel, Isaac Herzog, and Chairman of Keren Hayesod, Sam Grundwerg, spoke with leaders of Rome and Milan's Jewish communities.

A man wearing a protective face mask to prevent contracting the coronavirus walks past the Duomo Cathedral in Milan, Italy, March 4, 2020

Israel’s youngest emissaries: The ‘ShinShinim’

ISAAC HERZOG, Jewish Agency chairman, with agency ‘shlichim’ at the North American Shlichim Conference.

ISAAC HERZOG, Jewish Agency chairman, with agency ‘shlichim’ at the North American Shlichim Conference.

Why is Keren Hayesod honoring Vladimir Putin?

Keren Hayesod will be bringing the world’s foremost Jewish philanthropists to meet the man who has kept Bashar Assad in power in Syria while he has repeatedly gassed innocent Arab children.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference

The ultimate proof of partnership

Would the State of Israel have been established without philanthropy, a social justice form of giving?

Theodor Herzl addresses the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897

From 1947 to 2018 – the miracles of November 29

November 29, 1947, marked one of the greatest milestones along the road to realizing the miracle of the modern Jewish state.

Jews crowd onto a British army armoured car as they celebrate in downtown Jerusalem the morning after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947 to partition Palestine which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948.

Keren Hayesod gets new chairman

Unlike the previous Keren Hayesod chairman Eliezer (Moodi) Sandberg, who resigned over allegations in the “Case 3000” submarine affair, Grundwerg is not a politician but a professional appointment.

Sam Grundwerg

Lone Soldiers to receive grant at ceremony honoring their service

The Jewish Agency's WINGS program helps released soldiers take their first steps as civilians with grants provided by Keren Hayesod.

An IDF soldier

United Israel Appeal leaving BDS-enabling bank in Germany

Move follows ‘Post’ exposé on bank’s support of boycott groups targeting Israel.

BDS