http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=85741

“….The largest number of North American Jews ever to move to Israel in one day arrived in the Holy Land Wednesday morning and were greeted with fanfare by the country’s leaders.

More than 500 Jews from the US and Canada boarded two planes, in New York and Toronto Tuesday, embarking on Aliya, the Hebrew word literally meaning ascent, which refers to the act of immigrating to Israel…..”