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This week's issue of the Jewish Week reports on olim moving back to North America, and criticizes Israel's lack of support for immigrants, including its recent changes in the tax law, and the elimination of various benefits previously offered to new immigrants.

One person who made aliyah and is now in his early 40's and unemployed is quoted is saying "it really bugs me that people like me, people who have served in the army, lived through wars and waves of terror, have left or are on the verge of leaving because we can’t afford to pay our mortgages and feed our families." Another, Brucha Rutner, who made aliyah with her husband five years ago shortly after their marriage and is now moving back to the U.S. said that she is "very disillusioned. There is a joke that says, the best way to cure a case of Zionism is to make aliyah. Unfortunately for me, this happened."
posted on 7/16/2003