Aliyah From UK Rises 32% as Applications Jump 68%

Aliyah from the United Kingdom rose by nearly a third over the past year, according to new figures from Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration and the Jewish Agency.

A total of 975 people made aliyah from the UK during the Jewish year 5786, up from 737 the previous year. The increase represents a rise of about 32%.

Interest in future aliyah grew even faster.

Some 2,264 people in Britain opened aliyah files during the year, compared with 1,348 a year earlier. That marks an increase of 68%.

The latest figures continue several years of growth in British aliyah. Some 568 people moved from the UK to Israel two years ago, while 419 made aliyah the year before that.

However, researchers have cautioned against assuming that the recent increase represents an unprecedented exodus of British Jews.

An April report by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research found that 742 people moved from Britain to Israel during the 2025 calendar year, the highest annual figure in more than 40 years. However, it noted that the average over the previous three years remained close to the long-term average recorded over the past two decades.

The rise in British applications comes as interest in aliyah has increased across several Western Jewish communities.

Applications rose by about 90% in Australia, 32% in France and 17% in the United States. More than 28,000 people worldwide opened aliyah files during the past year.

Overall, more than 20,000 new immigrants from around 100 countries arrived in Israel during the Jewish year.

Russia remained the largest source of new immigrants, with 5,685 arrivals. France followed with 4,364, while 3,333 immigrants arrived from the United States and 975 from Britain.

Despite the growth in aliyah from Western countries, overall immigration to Israel declined compared with the previous year, largely due to a decrease in arrivals from Russia.