Welcome to my Aliyah Blog.<\/p>\n
My name is Deganit and is my story of our family\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 When we had the audacity to ask him what the hell he was doing, he said to us:<\/p>\n
“It’s chag.”<\/p>\n
“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?”<\/p>\n
His reply?<\/p>\n
“This is not London. This is the middle east. We do what we feel.”<\/p>\n
That about sums it up really.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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