Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

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So what is the bright side of NBN? It's the ubiquitous ads which I would image comprise a large part of their budget. Live the dream and all that nonsense. In other words, the bright side doesn't exist. It's a marketing campaign. I can't say that I hoped for much help from NBN when I got to Israel because they weren't that helpful in America either. They have a website. It contains some information. That's it really. They don't have counselors, not real ones, ones that counsel. They have these spoiled ladies from Teaneck that don't even pretend to care about you. You meet for half an hour and any questions after that result in your being directed to the web site. It's always the web site. NBN certainly doesn't tell you about the downside of aliyah or the dangers. They paint a rosy fantasy because they make a living from you making aliyah. They don't tell you about the young people going off the derech. That's a big omission. Criminal.

On 3/21/21, Israeli politician Naftali Bennett appeared on national Israeli television during the election campaign and stated, “I won’t allow Yair Lapid to be prime minister, including in a rotation (agreement.)” and “I will not establish a government based on the support of Mansour Abbas from the Islamic Movement.” He signed a document affirming those words and held it up to the camera.  In the first weeks of June of 2021, after the election, Bennett entered a rotation agreement with Lapid and established a government with the support of Mansour Abbas.  https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-signs-pledge-not-to-join-government-with-yair-lapid-as-prime-minister/ We see once again that Israel does not have a democracy. A guy with 5% of the vote (6 of 120 seats) should not be able to become head of a country, particularly when he breaks WRITTEN promises to do it. [Note, in the German election of 1924, the Nazi party won 6% of the vote.] As Mark Levin  noted , "Naftali Benne...

 As you may know, the Israeli 'police', raided the shul on Ein Yaakov St in Meah Shaarim and managed to fire a stun grenade at some women who happened to be walking by. The raid was because men came to pray there in violation of the over recent top health ordinances. No country in the world has imposed the draconian restrictions of Israel. In Sweden, a country of similar population size, they are ignoring the virus and their incidence rate is the same as Israel's. Japan, a country of 126 million people, is ignoring the virus and has less infections and deaths than Israel. One sees that Israel is capable of becoming a police state without blinking, such is not only its size but its militaristic mentality. Meanwhile, 800 people in Israel die each year from second-hand smoking (8,000 from smoking), but not much is being done about that. People get killed every year living in the territories, but the government continues to build there even though there's plenty of land beh...

  I just returned from a Yom HaZicharon presentation with my Ulpan class. It was my first and I went with an open mind as I hadn't had breakfast or lunch and lacked the strength to project my own perspective onto it unless really provoked. Warning, these are not the kind of reflections you may be expecting. A number of things struck me during the 45 minute ceremony which was held at a national religious school and conducted mostly by school boys. The first was how all the gestures seemed borrowed from somewhere else. The plethora of flags, the marching, the solder with the torch, the national anthem. It was all European/American military except for the national anthem not mentioning God. There was even an American military band marching song which very well could have been written by John Phillip Sousa. The second thing was how little of it was religious considering that the school was National Religious and this was an event to commemorate the dead. We Jews are specialists in...

Each person must decide for him or herself, but one should go with eyes open. There are aliyah salespeople who put out a lot of propaganda, making it seem that everyone should and must move to Israel, that it's some kind of Jewish paradise. To me, this is reprehensible. There are pluses and minuses to living here, like all places. Be informed. Some people prosper here, some get ruined. Some reasons not to move here:  1. The draft. I know that many Americans and British glamorize/idolize the Israel military, but the reality is that the 3 years of military servitude is a kind of hell for many people. I have spoken to numerous Israelis who have told me that they never recovered from the experience. Imagine an angry Israeli bus driver howling at you on a bus that you can't leave for 2 years and 7 months or whatever the ridiculously long military servitude is these days. They take young impressionable people and own them for that entire time. The indoctrination is intense when peopl...