The Blogger shares from her own experience of making Aliya from the U.S.  Here is just an excerpt of what she shares in the post about her own experience:

The Cap’n and I took years to come to the decision to make aliyah.  We had many of the excuses others have, plus perhaps a few more.  But we also had a strong desire to live here.  It was only after a Kol Nidrei d’var Torah given by a friend that we reframed our thinking.  He defined timhon levav in the liturgy as refraining from doing that which one knows to be right because it is easier to stick to the status quo.  When we heard that, we realized that the time had come to look into aliyah seriously.  The following Yom Kippur, we were in Israel.

I need hardly say that Israel is special.  As I’ve said many times, Israel may not be the only place for Jews to live, but in my opinion, it is by far the best place for them to live.  Israel is by, for, and about the Jews.  Nowhere else is.  It is flawed in many ways, and one of the best ways I can think of to find solutions to those flaws is to have bright, principled, well-educated Western technocrats come and build, develop, and improve the country.

Read the entire Blog Post including the top 10 stupid reasons not to make Aliyah

Ayalon said he came up with the idea after he conducted visits to the Galilee and the Negev. “I was amazed to see that we are losing the Negev and the Galilee,” he told participants. 

“In many places there is no contiguous Jewish presence, and there is past experience in which we expel Jews from lands, and then transfer the area to authorities who are not Zionists and don’t strengthen the State of Israel.

“Our strategic reserve is not in Tel Aviv and not between Gedera and Hadera, it is in the Negev and the Galilee, and in Judea and Samaria,” Ayalon said.

“The focus for today is to Judaize the Negev and the Galilee. If there won’t be a Jewish majority in the Negev and the Galilee,” he warned, “it could lay the groundwork for a legal national claim by Arabs, either for autonomy or secession from the State of Israel.”

Read lengthier article and view video interview with Ayalon at Israelnationalnews.com

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