Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaertz Service : Last year, 4,200 Israelis abroad came back to Israel, most from U.S.
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Title:To Jeroen
Name:Eli
City: Tel AvivState:
Appology accepted.

Its true that there are a number of cooks and extremists (in Hevron and Yesh Gvul) who come on Aliya. However, like most most Americans in Israel I`m a rational and reasonable professional who came because no matter how much I love the U.S. as a Jew I feel that it can never be home to me the way Israel is. Sure, I miss not having to wake up at 2 a.m. to watch the Yankees in October but with all of te hardships here I feel more at home in Israel than I could in New York.

Israelis overseas - I understand why your there. I did a university degree overseas but I came back. I don`t think you can ever feel as comfortable in NY, LA, Miami or Toronto as you will in Tel Aviv or Haifa.