PJ Media
P. David Hornik
Jan. 25, 2018
Israel has changed so much recently that even thinking back a few decades is like recalling an ancient past.
We moved to Israel from upstate New York in September 1984. In those days it usually meant starting out in an immigrant absorption center, where a family could get a tiny apartment at a nominal cost and months of free, intensive Hebrew instruction.
Although we’d wanted a certain absorption center near Jerusalem, no places were open that month and we couldn’t wait longer. So we agreed to go to an absorption center in Beit Eliezer, then a small, sleepy neighborhood of the town of Hadera, which is up the coast from Tel Aviv and slightly inland.
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