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Why some new olim leave Israel, and what makes aliyah stick

Why some new olim leave Israel, and what makes aliyah stick

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Most olim aren't lost on the way to Israel, they're lost the week after. Ofer Nachshon and Rabbi Sid Slivko explain why so many go home.

Olim Paveway doesn't try to convince anyone to make aliyah. That's the point. Co-founder Ofer Nachshon, an Israeli entrepreneur, and Rabbi Sid Slivko, an American oleh of 30 years, sat down with the Jerusalem Post's Batsheva Shulman to talk about the part of aliyah nobody prepares for: the day after the plane lands. "Aliyah doesn't stop when you get the taxi back from Ben-Gurion," Slivko says. "Aliyah just starts when you do that." Their argument is that the return rate, still significant even as it declines, is driven less by ideology than by bank forms, bureaucracy, and a culture gap that can't be understood from abroad.

The conversation gets specific about what actually helps: a personal guide who walks olim through the supermarket, the cell phone contract and the school registration; a vetted network of service providers held to fair pricing; and weekly Toolbox Talks with experts. It also gets blunt about expectations. "Israel is not an escape," Slivko warns, and there is "no carbon copy aliyah," the friend who got a driver's license in two days is not a benchmark. Nachshon adds a challenge aimed squarely at Israelis: most, he argues, don't grasp what it costs to abandon a career, a status and a community and start from zero.

What makes this interview unusual is that both men are inside the problem from opposite sides: one a native Israeli watching olim collide with his own country's systems, the other still calling himself "an oleh with 30 years of experience." Slivko closes with the advice that rescued his own aliyah three decades ago: don't try to carbon-copy your American career, turn what you love into your profession. For anyone weighing aliyah, in year one of it, or quietly wondering how much longer they can last, this is the honest version.
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