Check out this article on Arutz-Sheva about the return of the Bnei Menashe back into the fold (I copied the text here - go to Arutz-Sheva for some nice pictures):
In a historic decision, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar has decided to formally recognize the Bnei Menashe community of northeastern India as descendants of Israel.
The Chief [...]

Check out this cool video from Divrei Moshe.

A number of articles were published in Arutz-Sheva over the past couple of weeks, all speaking positively about the economy and job market (at least for hi-tech) in Israel). Looks like the economy is definitely out of its slump.
See Blossoming Job Market for New Immigrants , Hi-Tech Start-Up Aids Unemployed Anglos in Israel and an [...]

From Ynetnews.com:
By Miri Chason
TEL AVIV - About 50 percent of French youngsters say they have experienced anti-Semitism in the past five years, and a third say they are interested in moving to Israel soon, according to a survey released Thursday.
The poll, undertaken by Eric Cohen from Bar Ilan University, also shows 75 percent of [...]

A series of articles by Dov Gilor in the Jewish Press dating from the beginning of last December to now (13 articles so far and counting. Here is the beginning of the first article which describes Mr. Gilors reasons for compiling these stories:
Like many of those whose stories will be found in this series, I [...]

A few weeks ago my wife opened up our aliyah tik at the Jewish Agency.
The official job of the Jewish Agency is to help people immigrate to Israel (I say “people” and not “Jews” since they will help anyone who is allowed in under the law of return, including hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish [...]