About My Aliyah Blog
Welcome to my Aliyah Blog.
My name is Deganit and is my story of our family’s aliyah in 2010 to the North of Israel (Karmiel and then yishuv Eshchar) from just North of London (Bushey), beginning 26th July 2010. We were a family of 3, with a delightful toddling little boy of 18 months and now we are a family of 7 (4 boys and a girl). We invite you to join the trials, tribulations and (possibly) triumphs of emigrating to the holiest, and craziest country in the world.
We knew it wouldn’t be easy. On our last trip out here, some bloke driving a van randomly backed into the road from a melon stall without looking, almost crashing into our car. When we had the audacity to ask him what the hell he was doing, he said to us:
“It’s chag.”
“Right”, I said. (silly me) “Of course. It’s erev Pesach. So tell me why that gives you the right to drive like a lunatic?”
His reply?
“This is not London. This is the middle east. We do what we feel.”
That about sums it up really.
Update: As January 2020 the author of this blog, Deganit (Duggi), sadly passed away from the flu at the age of 40. This blog is currently maintained by “husband”, also known as Howard.
3 Replies to “About My Aliyah Blog”
hi duggi
love the blog – keep writing x
I love this blogg. Almost as much as http://www.jewpro.co.uk for jewish events, jewish weddings and property in iarael. Please keep writing. It keeps me sane in cold london. To all website visitors, its worth going up north. The drive to karmiel is so beautiful and really not so far if you take route 6
My son is shifting with his family to Karmiel at the end of April from Givat Shmuel with 3 small children. I enjoyed reading your blog and will tell them about the supermarkets. I live in Melbourne Australia and came across your blog when I typed in Karmiel to find out a little about the life there. Just love reading what you write..