Anyone who's joined an IBCA event recently will recognise the trend even without seeing the numbers: there are more British faces in the room, and more of them are new arrivals. A report published in April by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research confirms it. 742 British Jews made aliyah in 2025 — the highest annual figure in over 40 years, and enough to push the last three years to their highest sustained average since the 1980s.
The report, by JPR executive director Dr Jonathan Boyd, is careful not to call it an exodus. Taken over a longer run of years, British aliyah has actually stayed close to its twenty-year average — this isn't a population suddenly uprooting itself, so much as a steady trend accelerating. What's changed is the backdrop: the report sits against a run of the three highest annual totals of recorded antisemitic incidents in the UK since records began, according to the Community Security Trust, and a string of attacks on Jewish targets abroad that have made the question of whether to stay or go feel more urgent for a lot of British Jewish families than it did a decade ago.
Whatever the mix of reasons behind any individual family's decision, the practical result is the same one IBCA has existed to support since 1949: a growing Anglo community in Israel, in need of exactly the kind of connection, familiarity and social ties that brought this organisation into being in the first place. It's a reminder that the relationship between Britain, the Commonwealth and Israel isn't just diplomatic history — it's still being written, one arrival at a time.
You can read the full JPR report, "Time to leave the UK? Patterns of Jewish migration to Israel post-October 7", via Jewish News.