The Only Way Is Up

Bridie moved to Israel with her family in 2004, before going back to England for high school. 

In 2014 Bridie came back as an adult, met her now-husband, started a business and a family. 

Transferring …

Ilana made Aliyah from Canada in 2008, after finishing hrer university studies. She always had a strong connection with Israel, and her Savta was born and raised here. (She moved to Canada after marr…

Jen met her husband 10 years ago in Brazil, came here to visit shortly after and never left. She struggled a lot for the first 3.5 years with work etc and knowing what she wanted to do. Jen left and …

Pearl grew up in London and when she got married she moved to Manchester where she brought up her family.  Pearl worked in finance for a while but always wanted to work with wellbeing and the helping…

Meet Amy, aka @theasianisraeli. 5 years ago, this native Californian decided to become Israeli. Looking back on her life, no one would have guessed it. Coming from a mixed family, she had very limite…

Michal Berman made alliyah from NY after finishing college, 8 years ago. She came to join the army as a lone soldier through garin tzabar, a program that lets you live with other lone soldiers. This …

There are moments that occur in life that can change everything that follows. For a mother to hear that something is developmentally different about the children; that is one of those moments. Debora…

Helena made Aaliyah in January 2019 from London and went straight to Ulpan Etzion in Jerusalem. She moved to Tel Aviv in June and continued my freelance content writing business, but found that there…

Pamela Becker came to Israel from New York in 1994 with the Arad Arts Project artist residency program. Today, she juggles a high-tech career with non-profit management and writing fiction.   

Armed w…

Maxine was always connected to Israel as she visited many times from an early age and she was also very involved in a Zionist youth movement. When she was  21 & 23 years old, she was a passenger in 2…

Yarin Weltsman is originally from Johannesburg South Africa, she is an award winning UX designer and innovator that focuses on a human-centric approach to translating ideas into tangible strategies a…

Before Lisa and her family made Aliyah, Lisa was working as a registered nurse in New York.  She had started in adult organ transplant at Mt Sinai Hospital, and then moved to school nursing at SAR Hi…

Danni Franks was born in Edgware and went to JFS.  She fell in love with Israel during her 5 month trip to Givat Washington in 1987.   When she landed at Ben Gurion for the first time in my life age …

Born and raised in the U.S., Meirav studied theater and education before moving to Israel to join the IDF.   In 2005, she founded the English-language professional traveling theater in Israel, Englis…

Sharonna made aliyah in 2010. She was born in Tel Aviv. Her mum is Israeli and Dad is Scottish. She moved to become a journalist and to write a book about the street names of Tel Aviv. One purim in 2…

Jen met her husband 10 years ago in Brazil, came here to visit shortly after and never left. She struggled a lot for the first 3.5 years with work etc and knowing what she wanted to do. Jen left and …

Valeria was born in NY in 1977, when her argentinean parents were immigrants in U.S. while in Argentina there was a dictatorship. 

After 7 month they decided to go back to Buenos Aires, so this was he…

Gila Levitan, Tour Guide: Originally from Sydney, Australia, she moved to Israel for 14 years ago. In Australia, she was involved in the Zionist Youth movements and spent a year in Israel between hig…

Stephanie made aliyah from Johannesburg, South Africa 8 years ago and founded a successful high tech recruitment company in Tel Aviv. The company focuses on finding employment or English and foreign …

Rachel Erdos is an award winning independent choreographer born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. Currently living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel since 2002

She received her MA from The Laban Centre L…