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American women pack up their lives, move to Israel for love
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: immigration, nefesh b'nefesh 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for July 13, 2008.

In recent months, the government agencies responsible for increasing aliyah have been getting creative in the way they entice Jews abroad to pack up, pick up and start over in Israel.

Some of the latest efforts include a plan to offer immigrants from Western countries tax breaks and temporary residency status, along with an exemption for several years from national service.

Those incentives may tempt some to take the plunge, but four new immigrants who arrived on Thursday as part of a group of about 200 were lured by a different benefit. They moved to Israel for love.
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