takah, are you holding on to that in case you need an escape hatch?
No, I am holding it because I have an elderly mother in America with health issues, and if I need to go, I won’t have time to make an appointment with the American embassy and wait to get a visa on my Israeli passport.
My late father was ill, and I ended up going back and forth 3 times while he was ill and once for the levaya. I was quite thankful that I had my U.S. passport so I didn’t have to deal with visas, and (of course) I was able to go through the faster citizen’s line at the airport in Newark.