Stories from the Field
Stories of Jewish people we’ve helped make aliyah (emigrate to Israel).
Ruth P from Sao Paulo
“My name is Ruth, I’m from São Paulo, Brazil.” “Aliyah means my return home. To make aliyah is much more than to live in Israel, it means to be Jewish, in a JEWISH COUNTRY. I am going alone in a new stage of my life; returning to the roots of our patriarchs. I hope to...
Anna K from Melitopol
“I have always wanted to live in Israel. While I was still a student, I wanted to leave on one of the Jewish Agency’s programs but then got married and my son, Nazar, was born. So, the question of aliyah was postponed for a while. Then my husband and I divorced, and...
Maxim and Natalie Z from Marseille
Ezra France helped Maxim and Natalie, along with 9 of their children, to make aliyah! Maxim tells a little of their story. “Making aliyah is important to us because it is part of the process of spiritual elevation by connection to the Holy Land. The decision to make...
Smadar B from Sao Paulo
“My name is Smadar and I am from Sao Paulo in Brazil. I’m a single mother with three teenage children – Hanan 16, Haim 14 and Itai 14. I have decided to make aliyah because this is what my boys want. They want to study and live in Israel in the Naale school. I...
Pavel and Tatyana O from Bendery
Pavel and Tatyana made aliyah along with their children Dmitri and Anastasia. “The seasons come and go, and along with the approaching season our long-held dream of making aliyah is also approaching! No-one in our family, which is living in Moldova, has ever been to...
Antonio P from Porto Alegre, Brazil
“My name is Antonio, I´m from Porto Alegre, Brazil.” “To me, aliyah means returning to my home.” “I decided to make aliyah when I found out that I belonged to the people of Israel. I feel sad about leaving Brazil, but I hope to adapt myself to the new life reality of...
Antonella M from Manta in Ecuador
Antonella made aliyah with her daughter Santa Lucia and son, Jose. Antonella is originally from Venezuela, following her divorce, she decided that there are better opportunities in Israel for herself and her children. Ezra helped pay for documents and extra...
Laurent and Izabelle F from Marseille, France
Laurent and Izabelle made aliyah with 3 of their children (Samuel, Ethan and Ora) in July 2019 – our first family from France! Laurent and Izabelle heard about Ezra France through an advertisement in the magazine published by the Jewish Community in Marseille. They...
Aleksandr and Irina F from Tiraspol, Moldova
Aleksandr’s surname in Yiddish means ‘the sparkling, shining, stone’. Aleksandr was born in December 1978 and made aliyah with his wife, Irina. Aleksandr didn’t know his grandparents, but he knows that the family comes from his great-grandmother Chai-Sura and...