Ministry of Immigrant Absorption

2 Kaplan St., Qiryat Ben-Gurion
P.O. Box 13061, 91130 Jerusalem
Tel. (02) 6752611
Fax. (02) 5618138
Website: http://www.moia.gov.il/
(Hebrew, English, Russian)

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Functions and Structure

The Ministry of Immigrant Absorption is responsible for the economic, occupational, social, and cultural integration of immigrants (olim) during their first three years in Israel. (Housing-aid eligibility lasts five years.) The Ministry also encourages others - public institutions, volunteer organizations, schoolchildren, and university students - to promote immigrant absorption. The Ministry is organized as follows:

ADMINISTRATION: The senior echelon of the Ministry sets absorption policy and coordinates the activities of public agencies that handle various aspects of absorption, such as housing, employment, social integration, financial assistance, and special welfare services geared to immigrants.

The Absorption Services Division steers immigrants to absorption centers, transitional arrangements, or permanent housing. The Division coordinates among the organizations that provide immigrants with absorption and welfare services, including education, health, and customs, with special attention to former Prisoners of Zion and immigrants in army service. The Division also deals with rural settlements and with returning residents (former emigrants). Immigrants are provided with social services by the Ministry, under the auspices of the Social Services Division of the Jewish Agency Immigration and Absorption Department. The Ministry itself has a Division for the early detection of vulnerable groups of immigrants, which provides them with intensive preventive and supportive care throughout their period of eligibility.

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