Writing from first-hand experience:
The Land Of Israel is a harsh land inhabited by a harsh people.
The average Israeli, by American standards, is obnoxious, rude, uncaring, infuriating, & aggressive; just to list some of their best attributes.
The Israeli Government of today is corrupt beyond what is believable and/or conceivable by American standards.
The political system itself is a hastily thrown together amalgam of Turkish Law from the Ottoman Empire, British Parliamentarianism, Eastern European old-line Marxism, and New World Order Political Correctness; all to the extreme.
As of late, the Israeli Gov't. appears to be concerned with Aliyah only for the purposes of taxing to death the olim (newly arrived immigrants).
The government deliberately lies and misleads potential new olim to "take the leap of faith" and make Aliyah.
Once they do, deep bitterness soon sets in upon finding the various laws, taxations, rules, and assorted assaults to one's dignity which were never mentioned prior to the big move.
Then, when turning to the Government agencies for "promised assistance", the olim discover that "they've been had" by deceitful bureaucrats with no regard for anything or anybody (least of all to the numerous "iron-clad" promises and agreements they make daily).
If one desires to know what to expect in the way of government assists in assimilating into a very foreign & complex way of life, one need look no further than to the Israeli Government's treatment of long-time Israeli citizen patriots of Gaza; both in the lead-up to the expulsion, the expulsion itself and the brutality used against its own people, and also in the follow-up to the debacle; when all of the promises made to the "settlers" regarding just legal compensation for their property and businesses, and the creation of new housing and shelter for their reimplanting into society, were immediately thrown right out into the garbage with a cynical sneer the very second the "Gaza Pogrom" was complete.
I write these observations not to discourage anyone from Aliyah, but merely to make sure the move is taken "with eyes wide open" and with no misconceptions about what to expect.
I tend to think that most of the unpleasant matters of which I write are the direct result of the so-called "post-Zionist" thinking surrounding the Oslo Suicide Process... at was following Oslo that "ultra-left internationalist" thinking replaced the "Ingathering of The Exiles" policy which played such a prominent role in Israel's early modern history.
'Nuff said for now; I have many wonderful things about life in Israel which I'll offer in the future.
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