Said Lisa Parshan, “It was very nice to watch people just like us coming off … all jet lagged but with a smile on their face. The families included David and Lisa Parshan and their two younger children. He told CBN News, “…living in Israel made me realize how much I really loved being there.” This time he came to stay and to serve proudly with one of the greatest militaries in the entire world … in a nation with only slightly over six million Jews. Previously, he had been granted a visa to attend a yeshiva (Torah seminary) in Israel. One of the elated immigrants was Max Kresch, age 19, from Detroit one of several who moved to Israel for the express purpose of serving as a “lone soldier” in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). *Note: Next Year in Jerusalem is a saying repeated by Jewish families for hundreds of years to this very day, especially during the Passover celebration. Said Natan Sharansky to the new arrivals: “Only think for a moment about your fathers, your grandfathers, your great grandfathers, all those generations of your families who were dreaming and praying next year in Jerusalem and you did it.”
Yet, considering that people from all over the world would do just about anything to move to the United States (and Canada), it is quite remarkable that even a handful of people would want to do just the opposite … move from the prosperity and security of America and Canada to the uncertainty and turmoil faced by this tiny democratic Israeli nation surrounded by enemies who seek their destruction.
To be sure, thousands of Jews have immigrated from Canada and the United States to Israel. What made this group of immigrants exceptional is that they all had left their homes in North America to take up residence in Israel the Promised Land given to them by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Although the event was exciting, it was not all that unusual as hundreds of thousands of Jews all over the world have made Israel their home over the last seven decades or so, through what the Jews call, Aliyah … the “going-up” ingathering of their people.
Recently, Natan Sharansky, Chairman for The Jewish Agency met and welcomed nearly thirty families including seventy-five children at Ben Gurion International Airport between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Amazing Anticipation for Messiah Continues
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