Israeli diplomatic officials in N. America are pointing to an increase in the number of ‘yordim’, Israelis who left the country to relocate to N. America are requesting funding for an airplane ticket home. They point out that they are referring to cases in an Israeli hopeful was seeking his/her fortune abroad lost all his/her money.
Israel’s Consul General in Miami, Eli Yifrach, reports that numbers are small, but a day does not pass without a new inquiry, representing a significant increase. “There are cases in which the Israeli explained they are being evicted from their homes, unable to make mortgage payments. They were on the verge of starvation,” Yifrach elaborated in his correspondence to Foreign Ministry officials.
Another N. American diplomatic official concurs, stating in one case, he gave an Israeli $100, realizing he no longer had money to eat. “I know they often turn to Chabad houses for food and assistance,” he adds.
Sharon Glazeman, a senior Absorption Ministry official, confirms there are a “number of cases known to us in which Israelis no longer have funds to purchase a plane ticket.”
Erez Chalfon, the ministry’s director-general, has ordered looking into the legal aspect of establishing some type of fund in tandem with the Foreign Ministry to assist the stranded Israelis to purchase plane tickets home.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Hashem wants his children home, and the global crisis is one way for that to occur!!! Any idea what the next plan of action might be to get hashem’s children back to the holyland and city of gold?
This happens to olim too unfortunately. People in general are too naive about acclimating to foreign societies and being able to get by.
People in general are too naive about acclimating to foreign societies and being able to get by.
NOT THE CASE with these yordim, some have been living in ch”l for years, earning big bucks and talking about returning for years. Now with their business closing, time to return home.
I believe the American policy is to LOAN the money to its stranded citizens. The fact is that many Israelis are quite naive about getting rich in the “golden medinah”, and along with many others from many countries, are likely to return home if the recession gets worse. As long as they aren’t legal immigrants or citizens, they can get the US government to pay their airfare under the policy of voluntary deportation for illegal immigrants.