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What were some of the greatest challenges of shlichut?
Etan: Being away from Israel! You spend so much of your time
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far away. Sometimes we would
see families making Aliyah,
or going to Israel for a
vacation or a simchah
and we just wanted to
hide in their suitcases
and go with them!

Tiferet: Being away
from family was
tough. When our first
child was born, it was
really hard not having
our family there, which
we would have had in Israel,
but we knew it was a sacrifice we
had to make for shlichut. We also were in charge of managing
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niche and fulfilled a meaningful role. That wasn’t easy, and we
worked very hard at it.

How did the shlichut experience change you and your
perspective on the Jewish people?
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