Page 16 - HaMizrachi Yom HaAtzmaut 5782 USA

ISRAEL’S FUTURE:

PROFILES IN YOUTH ALIYAH

Name: Yehudit Fleischhacker Name: Noah Tradonsky
Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee, USA Hometown: Johannesburg, South Africa

As my father dropped me off at the airport for my Our return to Zion is the most ambitious project in
seminary year, he said I should always remember our nation’s history: to build, on the back of Holocaust
how fortunate my generation is that we can learn, survivors and refugees, a home for the world’s Jews, a
experience, and live freely in the Land of Israel. This safehaven for the persecuted, a second chance for those
stuck with me, and I spent the entire year immersing forgotten, and a bright, beautiful and moral light for the
myself in all Israel had to offer and made Aliyah in the nations of the world. How could I not want to be a part
middle of the year. of that?

Name: Chaim Weinstein Name: Liora Mayer
Hometown: Teaneck, New Jersey, USA Hometown: Boca Raton, Florida, USA

I made Aliyah because I see our future here. Every My 8th-grade self knew I was making Aliyah before I
time our people settled in exile it was temporary, and did. On my way back to America from a school program
we were ultimately kicked out or worse. But here we in Israel, I felt down; I didn’t want to leave! Now I’m here
belong. You can ask anyone for help with anything, to stay, and although Aliyah is nothing like a class trip,
speak to anyone – we’re all part of Am Yisrael. I feel stronger than ever that I’m at home.
You really feel that here.

16 |