One of Israel's most influential figures in the field of aliya, Yehuda Dominitz, died at the weekend and was buried on Sunday in Jerusalem.
Mr Dominitz, 83, was the Jewish Agency's director-general for immigration and absorption from 1978 to 1986.
Yehuda Dominitz was 13 when the Nazis invaded his birthplace, Czechoslovakia, and his parents sent him, alone, to pre-state Palestine. They and the remainder of his family died in the Holocaust.
Between1946 and 1949 Mr Dominitz was sent back to Europe as an emissary on behalf of Youth Aliyah, to work with orphaned Jewish children in Italy. Later he joined the Immigration and Absorption Department of the Jewish Agency and filled a number of high-ranking roles in immigration and absorption.
During his service in the Immigration Department he was involved in all the waves of immigration , both overt and covert, as well as rescue and resettlement of Jews from countries of distress. He was also a key player in the absorption of immigrants throughout Israel.
From 1994 to 1998, he served as director of the Israel Office of the UJA Federation of New York and was involved in initiating social projects all over Israel and specifically in project renewal in the Hatikva neighbourhood in Tel Aviv.
In addition to his work at the Jewish Agency Mr Dominitz was heavily involved in volunteer and public service, for which he was later given the Jerusalem Award.