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Aliyah Diary

Arrival
01. Aug 19, 2024: Preparation In America
02. Aug 25, 2024: First Few Days
03. Aug 29, 2024: Moving In

Cultural Adjustment
04. Sept 4, 2024: First Day of School
05. Sept 8, 2024: Two Weeks In . . .
06. Sept 16, 2024: Getting Comfortable
07. Sept 22, 2024: Ready for Yom Tov
09. Sept 30, 2024: Nasrallahed on the Floor
15. Nov 10, 2024: Safety Fourth
18. Nov 24, 2024: Language – l’at, ‘lat
29. Jan 31, 2025: My Son Still in America
31. Feb 3, 2025: Internet Filtering for Kids
34. Feb 17, 2025: Finding Obscure Things

The Roads
24. Jan 5, 2025: Supermarkets & Highways
25. Jan 12, 2025: Not Cutting Me Off

Government and Bureaucracy
10. Oct 8, 2024: Driver’s License
11. Oct 13, 2024: Packages. (חבילות.)
13. Oct 30, 2024: Bureaucracies and Stories
19. Nov 28, 2024: Taxation for Americans
22. Dec 23, 2024: Doctors & “Choleh Chadash”
27. Jan 23, 2025: Healthcare in Israel
32. Feb 5, 2025: How To Hire the Wrong Person
33. Feb 10, 2025: Quest to Pay My Taxes

Politics & Thought
12. Oct 25, 2024: October Sun and the Jew
16. Nov 17, 2024: Where People Look Like Me
17. Nov 19, 2024: Jewish Identity and Outlook
21. Dec 11, 2024: Let Freedom Ring

Travel and Trips
08. Sept 25, 2024: Jerusalem Concert
14. Nov 2, 2024: The Kindness of Strangers
20. Dec 5, 2024: Tel Aviv Art Museum
23. Dec 29, 2024: The West Bank. (Shomron)
26. Jan 18, 2025: Dead Sea Beer and Ice Cream
28. Jan 26, 2025: Yarkon River Judaism, Tel Aviv
30. Jan 31, 2025: My Son Visits and we Travel
35. Feb 20, 2025: Mitzpe Ramon Stars, Ein Avdat

Recent Posts

Aliyah Diary 35: Mitzpe Ramon & Ein Avdat - No School Wednesday The Bible says “six days a week you shall work” so Israel’s only full workday off is Saturday. America has two full days off, while in true Israeli fashion, the consistency...
Aliyah Diary 34: Finding Obscure Products in Israel - Hairdryer For My Earbuds To my wife, “Where can I find a hair dryer?” She responds with some joke about how I don’t have enough hair for that. (While my brother insists that hair...
Aliyah Diary 33: Quest to Pay My Taxes - Photo credits go to Homestar Runner and Sierra-Online. Paying Taxes: U.S. vs. Israel Citizen: “I want to pay my taxes.”United States: “Sure! How would you like to pay? Credit card? Here are three competing...
Aliyah Diary 32: How to Hire the Right Professional and . . . Oops - Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. I’m probably not your lawyer. Legal information here can have mistakes. I’m not licensed in Israel and don’t want to be.Disclaimer 2: Facts are changed to protect the...
Aliyah Diary 31: Internet filtering … sometimes - Imagine a Higher Life Form Thinks You’re Cute Sometimes I wonder if this is what G_d thinks of us … “oh, the kids don’t have internet filters and the government wants more money from...
Aliyah Diary 29: What Does My Adult Son Think? - “What do your kids think” is a common question I won’t answer in the diary. That’s private – mostly. Here are some excerpts from my adult child, who is in America, however. He allowed...
Aliyah Diary 30: Visit from My Son in America - . . . continued from the last blog post. It was about four months since I saw my son back in America. When he finally came, we made sure to show him a good...
Aliyah Diary 28: Yarkon River Tel Aviv Judaism - Introduction As a college student, at the interview with an Orthodox Rabbi with the big black yarmulke, I asked if we’d visit Tel Aviv. He said, nah, it’s just like an American city …...
Aliyah Diary 27: Israel Healthcare Experience - Introduction I consider myself a moderate Republican – Susan Collins being my favorite Senator. If there’s ever anything that could move the needle towards socialism, here it is. Israel has four health care companies...

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