$765,000 for this

 

Come get your living/dining room/den/office in one for $765,000. And this is outside of Jerusalem. So you'll be commuting one hour to work and earning 1/3 of what you would in America where you could buy for $400,000 a house with big bedrooms, and a den, playroom, and dining room and living room and yard. Goshmiyus? Luxury? No. It's called sanity because the kids will not be on top of one another. They'll have space to play. They also will live around more relaxed classmates and teachers who don't wind them up with aggression. The kids in Israel tear each other to pieces and do real harm.

One of the most important parenting rules is to not assume that one’s children can handle what the parents dream that they can. You must careful with them and not put them into situations that they cannot handle. Rabbi Yonah Landsofer, the author of Meil Tzedaka, held that living in the land of Israel is a mitzvah even in our times, but that one is not obligated if he cannot earn a “plentiful parnassah,” for poverty can drive a person away from G-d. Even if he is sure that he can endure a life of deprivation, he should not assume that his children can withstand it.

[Rabbi Yonah Landsofer (1678-1712), Me’il Tzedaka, Chapter 36, cited in Pischei Teshuvah, Even Hoezer Chapter 75 and in Vayoel Moshe, Maamar Shalosh Shavuous, Siman 3]

So why would a person who lives in a normal Western country move to Israel and do this to their children? Zionist propaganda. That's all it is. Propaganda about the mitzvah of living in Israel, propaganda about mitzvos when done in Israel, propaganda about the alleged danger of living outside of Israel, and manipulation of idealism by making people feel that they are weak or materialistic for not moving to the hellhole called Israel. 

What they are is sensible. What they are is mature for not falling for fantasies. What they are is responsible.

And parents who move their children to Israel? They are fools. They are children themselves. They are weak minded and irresponsible.