07.01.2011                     2.Shevat, 5771

Aliya:

Private donors fund new absorption initiative

Project already helping 500 French teenagers adjust to life in Israel; head of AMI-Israel "system that exists is simply not enough."

Disappointed with government programs to integrate French immigrant children into Israeli society and the education system in particular, private Jewish donors from France have initiated a new scheme aimed at improving the overall absorption process,The Jerusalem Post learned Wednesday.
“The system that exists is simply not enough,” commented Avi Zana, head of AMI-Israel, an independently funded aliya organization that provides financial support and services to thousands of French immigrants….