@@user-bo8nb2mi Healthcare and produce are also affordable in Israel. Housing, other food like grains, dairy and meet, and transportation costs are high though. The most expensive is housing.
Quality of life isn't determined only by the size of your house or how many cars you have, it's also determined by how you feel when you're at work, or when you're interacting with people outside of your close community. In those areas a lot of jewish people would feel a lot better here in Israel.
@@becka42 I rink you may be ill informed. Although they may be different communities within Israel (Arab/Jewish/Christian), the country is incredibly well homogenous. As a result, Israel has some of the lowest crime rates in the world.
As an American, I wouldn’t generalize all Americans as having “a high quality of life”. That’s a pretty subjective perspective. Some Americans live very good, and some simply do not. The U.S. is quite a large country, and some regions are simply better than others. Some regions are worse than others. So it really depends on where that American-Jew lives, and what he/she views as “quality of life”. Quality of life is often based on each person’s personal preference of comfort, or long-term goal settings. I personally don’t like the way I must live my life, but most of my relatives are completely content with their lifestyle. 🤷🏻♂️ Edit: FUN FACT, the average American can’t even afford buying a home, Let alone buying a “huge house”, or many cars. 💁🏻♂️. As the generations go by, buying a home is getting harder and harder for most Americans to accomplish.
Yes, and Israelis have a misconception of American life and American Jews. Also, Americans live nicely because of the credit system cushion. In Israel, this is different and more restrictive
My grandparents were Hungarian Jewish refugees to Australia. I was born here, and have lived here all my life. I am 52. Making Aaliyah it seems should be the wish of all Jews, but I will never leave Australia. It is my home.
Imagine if the Jews who immigrated from Europe to Australia, America, Britain, Canada, etc had the same intentions as the Jews who invaded Palestine ? Do you think the Aussies would have welcomed you with open arms and given you their country to create an exclusive Jewish ethnostate ?
@@chugalongway01 My grandparents were refugees, they did not Immigrate to Australia. They fled Hungary. Several of my relatives perished in the Holocaust.
People may not know this but in the US there is an epidemic of loneliness. Google it. I believe Israelis are mentally healthier and more stable due to a society that is more social, with more connection between people. Having a higher income and a bigger house does not equate with happiness. Some Israelis do not appreciate what they have, especially a segment of younger people who do not remember the past and the incredible country that has been built.
I couldn't agree with this more. Not to mention people are having less children. We are well below replacement rate here now with the average of being 1.6 children. I have four children and am considered a large family. Also, the government right now is doing a great job dividing people and if your children go to government schools or colleges prepare for brain rot as they are taught to hate their parents, their country , life in general, and Israel. It's actually very sad and toxic. If you don't have a love for your country, your parents, and for life, you have nothing. Doesn't matter how much money you have. Not to mention inflation here is insane as well and so it's just as expensive to live here in the US.
I made aliyah 10 years ago & I found the process easy. Israelis are very helpful & the society here is much better than in the US. It's not hard to find a job & buy a car. Housing prices in the big cities like Tel Aviv & Jerusalem are about the same as in NY & CA, but if you look at other areas the prices are cheaper. With the social cohesion & free healthcare, quality of life in Israel is better than in the US.
Free healthcare?? Nothing is free and you pay through the nose with taxes in Israel. Besides you have more secular Jews than non-secular Jews in Israel.
I've had the opportunity to spend many years in both countries, and personally I would love to move back to Israel. Miss it every day. (There are more valuable things in life, than a large house or fleet of vehicles.) I also think Israel is where all Jews really belong. That said, it does have its challenges, so I would agree with the majority of the responses, that it ultimately depends on the individual, esp on their motivation and expectations.
@@spicyf My immediate fam lives here & I haven't been able to bring myself to live so far away from them. Also, one gets busy with life and in what feels like the blink of an eye, years pass. I do miss it tho, and especially wish I could be there this coming week. 75 years. Wow. 💙💙💙
I came to Israel twenty years ago with two suitcases, because my neshama could no longer live outside Israel. The very air in my home country of England felt oppressive, heavy and dirty, whereas in Israel I felt more whole and alive. Still essentially the case. I can visit outside Israel, but I feel the difference in my connection to Hashem and it's difficult accordingly, but it's always great to come back home to Israel. I gave up a lot to come home to Israel and went through a lot of suffering early on, but this is the Jewish homeland and where our souls belong. And G-d has blessed me greatly over the years and I have a good life here. However, it is up to every Jew to decide what is right for them and if they have family outside Israel it makes things more complicated.
@@abumusab7060 How many Arab states are there in the Middle East? 99% of them are majority Arab and majority Muslim. Why will their own people not take them? Why must the only country in the world that’s majority jewish in identity give refuge to people who want to transform it into yet another Arab Muslim sh💩thole? It makes no sense whatsoever. No sense!
@@abumusab7060 Let me explain a few things. Firstly, Jews are the indigenous people of Israel and have been for the past 3500 years continuously, over 2000 years before the first Arabs invaded and stole our land, part of a long line of oppressive invaders. Anyone living in our land before us died out as peoples in ancient times, as so many peoples had before them. Modern DNA has shown that we are all as human beings descendants of many long extinct peoples, including for most of us even other recent human species such as Neanderthals. Secondly, many "Palestinian" Arabs today are descendants of recent immigrants into the Jewish homeland with no prior connection to it. Even as late as World War One, Palestine - the British Mandate including what is or should be the "Arab" Palestine which was 78% of the entire land but was illegally lopped off becoming Jordan - was still a largely desolate and sparsely populated backwater of the Ottoman Empire. The name Palestine was given by the Romans to what was then called Judea - land of the tribe of Judah and from where Jews derive our very name - after the failed Jewish revolts and many, but not all, Jews who still lived being forcibly enslaved and exiled from their homeland. Those Jews who remained in Israel throughout the diaspora were subjected to persecution and attempted forced conversion by Christian rulers, also murder, and persecution as deliberately humilated third class dhimmis with far fewer rights than Muslims under Muslim rule after Arabs invaded our homeland in the 7th century. The name Palestine which became associated with this part of the world never referred to a distinct land, nation state or people except the already extinct non-semitic Philistines, enemies of the Jewish people, who lived on part of western Israel until the last of them were forcibly exiled by the Babylonians some 2500 years ago and disappeared as a people. No connection with modern Arabs who have only been calling themselves "Palestinian" for the past seventy years or so. Before that only Jews did. As the late Golda Meir described, "When in 1921 I came to Palestine - until the end of World War I a barren, sparsely inhabited Turkish province - we, the Jewish pioneers, were the avowed Palestinians. So we were named in the world. Arab nationalists, on the other hand, stridently rejected the designation. Arab spokesmen continued to insist that the land we had cherished for centuries was, like Lebanon, merely a fragment of Syria. On the grounds that it dismembered an ideal unitary Arab state, they fought before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry and at the United Nations. When the Arab historian Philip K. Hitti informed the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that “there is no such thing as Palestine in history,” it was left to David Ben-Gurion to stress the central role of Palestine in Jewish, if not Arab, history. As late as May 1956, Ahmed Shukairy, subsequently head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, declared to the United Nations Security Council, “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.” In view of this, I believe I may be forgiven if I took Arab spokesmen at their word." Israelis (which include 20% Arab Israeli citizens with equal rights to vote, careers, medical care etc. and far better human rights than anywhere else in the Middle East) want peace. Israel has made several offers of some of our deeply loved homeland for peace and all have been rejected. Instead, when we left Gaza Hamas started firing many rockets at our civilians including women and children, indiscriminately trying to murder us in what was actually recognized internationally as Israel from at least 1949. And terrorists deliberately try to murder us, committing suicide at the same time in the mistaken belief that they will enjoy 72 virgins in paradise (when the Quran actually says white grapes, delicious maybe but worth dying for?!?!). Just imagine if they turned their minds to making peace and building a better life for themselves and other Arabs. Of course Israel doesn't just have the right but the duty to protect its citizens from such evil and frankly ultimately senseless attacks by deluded and apparently brainwashed anti-Israel fanatics. That is why there are lockdowns and checkpoints. There would be no need for them if Arabs actually woke up and realized they have been fed anti-Jewish and anti-Israel lies and evil slander. Israel isn't perfect, no country is, but if you try to murder us we will defend ourselves. Until and unless you genuinely seek peace with us and lay down your weapons you will continue to feel oppressed. But ultimately it is you who are responsible for your own oppression and not us. And also other Arabs who refused to accept Arab refugees as citizens (except for Jordan), unlike those Arabs who remained in Israel in 1949 and became Israeli citizens. And it was Arabs who forced even more Jewish refugees to leave Arab lands than there were Arab refugees, many of whom ended up in Israel. Already effectively there has been an exchange of populations. So we are NOT oppressing you, nor is that our wish. We are simply defending ourselves and our rights as the true indigenous people of Israel which includes Judea and Samaria (aka "the west bank") to live and flourish in our own homeland. Check out the prophecy of Ezekiel chapter 36 in the Bible from over 2500 years ago, which has been and is being fulfilled before our very eyes. The Jewish connection to our homeland of Israel is a deep spiritual one as well. Jerusalem has only ever been the capital of a Jewish nation state and King David bought our very holiest site of all 3000 years ago, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, from a Jebusite for the Jewish people in perpetuity and for the Jewish Temple. And yet Jews still are not permitted to worship overtly on our very holiest site of all, and are severely limited in our visiting hours over one rickety bridge. Imagine the same being done to Muslims at the Ka'aba in Mecca by non-Muslims. Absolutely outrageous violation of our human rights. Indeed G-d Himself helped me home to Israel and home to Judaism in many incredible ways, including a beyond amazing visionary experience where He showed me directly that His mind is way beyond any capacity of a human being to contain or comprehend, that He loves me, I can never be apart from Him and all there really is is G-d. Never entirely got over that life changing experience just below the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in 2004. Israel is where I feel whole and close to G-d because this is the land where my soul belongs. Just as it does to all other Jewish people.
@@gilaschannel1855 What a zionist propagandist reply to justify you stealing land by claiming God is your real estate agent and you do as you're told. Just remember the prophecy when the jews will be hiding behind rocks and the rocks will tell where they are so they can be brought to justice. I'm sure your knees will tremble then just the way you're terrorising the Palestinians today.
Another ambiguously worded question. I know these are viewer-submitted questions, but for the sake of these interviews, it's best to rephrase them with clarity so they better serve their original intent.
I've been to the US every year for 6 consecutive years visiting family and new places for business and leisure. From what I have seen, I do not think it's a very objective view that Americans live "a high quality life." It's a mix and match, with average being the most I observed across 7 different cities including Orlando, Los Angeles, Washington DC, New York, New Orleans, Detroit, and Chicago. In the US, if you're well off, then life is definitely good. However, if you're middle class, you just get by.
Been to Israel many times to visit/say with family in Galilee. The Israeli jews appear different from American jews. I may be wrong, it's a subjective opinion but the Israeli jews are tougher/rougher from living in an under-siege environment from birth. The American jews that I know as neighbors, went to school/college and worked with are gentle. But some have moved to Israel so perhaps adjustment may be easier because they're with their people.
Tougher, maybe because Israelis have to do army service, rougher no. Maybe in some of the areas outside the big cities. In cities like Tel Aviv & Haifa Israelis are very kind & gentle.
@@scottsimon8543 oh theyre def kind and gentle and take care of each other and have multitudes of ways to support each other, but theyre just more rough around the edges. No (not always but often fake) politeness..... nothing to do with where real kindness and compassion come in.
As an American, there may be more money here but it is a lot more unequally dispersed among the people. CEO’s of big corporations own more than half of our money, and most people I know are either poor, living paycheck to paycheck, or even sometimes broke. I’m a younger adult and don’t have any friends with a big house or multiple cars. It’s very unequal here and there’s not much of a middle class anymore like there used to be.
@@s2Yid it depends on your luck and skills and experiences and carrier direction . US is a international market were people make billions and billions of dollars! on topic of Egypt btw biggest street food company in New York City is Halal Guys street food cafe and this company sells halal food in New York only Halal and it's all middle eastern delicacies being solled and literally his a billionaire in US just by his street food m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-emmXWi4iAW4.html&pp=ygUTaGFsYWwgZ3V5cyBuZXcgeW9yaw%3D%3D so see what you can do ! in per capita of 75,000 USD and GDP nominal of 25 trillion dollars see what you can do and get.
To live in Israel is a personal choice, whether you are Jewish, Christian, Muslim or any other ethnicity. As for the quality of life in Israel, or the US for that matter, that's up to each person and their capabilities and aspirations.
As an American Jew who’s been to Israel, I wouldn’t move. I love Israel - it’s such a beautiful country with amazing people but the surrounding climate in the Middle East is turbulent to say the least. I am also American and I love my country. There’s problems everywhere but I’d choose to be in america every time.
I think the old guy at the end had it best: for people that want a higher quality of life and the means, they can find it. It exists, it will cost more but if you have the means you can make it happen for certain. If it's about having a bimmer, there are bimmers. If it's about having large houses, it can be paid for or found outside the cities. Compared to the States, the difficulty here is largely social. Social connections are how people get work, social connections are how policies in government get enacted (the idea of "live and let live" doesn't exist, not even among the free spirit hippies who still manage to vote to infringe on the lives of others), and the terrorism problem is a social matter (i.e. it's about people and their views on religion and who can live where). A person who keeps to themselves will be lonely and a person that doesn't learn the language is going to miss out on a lot. A person who doesn't affiliate with a synagogue or some sort of social scene will not really have a circle of friends and for married folks it is worse because singles at work still go out to bars but you cannot really do that without upsetting your partner. A person who marries into a small family here, or marries another oleh, is basically on their own while other people that have family around have a great time and always get together and have options and childcare.
It’s amazing that all the commenters here who believe Israel has a higher standard of living are ignoring the fact that most people have bomb shelters in their homes and/or need access to one nearby if they don’t have one in their home. The delusion that living under constant threat of a bombing does not contribute to a lower quality of life is astounding.
You're somewhat right. However, the 2nd amendment makes life in the US somewhat more dangerous in terms of people shooting in schools. People in Israel react faster and better to terrorism so in general the feeling is pretty safe most of the time.
Crime in the us and the chance of dying due to violence is 3-4 times higher in US than Israel. the bomb shelters are an unfortunate reminder that we live amongst violent barbarians, and that freedom and peace is only kept by strength. but there is nothing like an external threat to remind a society what is really important and bring all things into perspective.
2: 12 There are a variety of countries that have a larger % of Christians, or Muslims, than the % of Israelis that are Jewish. Being a Jewish nation, is the unique part.
@@rxtr664 You already have over 50 Islamic states. (And the last thing this world needs is another one.) Jews have one on a tiny strip of land a few km wide, and all of you cry about nonstop, for a century and counting. (Land Islam occupied to begin with, I might add). Where is the "honor" in being a bunch of selfish, whiny little b't ches for a century and counting?
The cost of living is high (for some things) but the standard of living is equal or higher (for most people). There are so many beautiful cities to live in, in Israel. I lived in the Tri-State area for 18 years and even the suburbs there are not as gorgeous as Israeli cities, let alone the cities or highways. True, there are more malls and department stores, we had two American cars, and our house was two to three times as big with a big back and front yard. But European houses and cars are also similar to Israel. And, like in Europe, I can go to a top university for a couple of thousand of dollars a year. That's the big difference between the standard of living in the US and Europe/ Israel. The US is great for those who can afford the best but Israel spreads it out among more people. Then you can talk about how beautiful the nature and scenery is in Israel and the social frabric of a people together.
I simply can't be away from family. Los Angeles is one the few places where you can live a spiritually fulfilling and observant life and yet still be in exile. There are dozens of synagogues, Jewish schools, student programs, kosher resturants, Hebrew language education, etc. Without these resources, Aliyah would be more or less a necessity.
The lady has an excellent point about Hungary (and most of Europe at that time). Everything was hunky dory and then boom! Off to the camps. Of course there was some warning signs and not many made moves and escaped the horrors. If the past three years has taught us Jews anything good, its that things can change in a flash. Antisemitism is on a sharp increase as well, there's wars and brink of major wars. Like she said, in the long run Israel is the right place to be as the Tanakh has told us how we will be safe in Israel during the last assault on us.
Corey, why do you assume that the quality of life in America is better? Your assumption is just wrong. Seems like you're actually not that well-traveled.
First of all, I think this is a very loaded question. This is from somebody that has made a Aliyah from the United States. Phoenix, Arizona to Netanya. The quality of life in Israel is actually better than the United States in my opinion. Healthcare here is better. Food here is better. Yes, the United States has more of a economic advantage. But Israel is very quickly closing that gap. From what Israel is now, to what she used to be a few decades ago is significantly different. So look another few decades in the future, and I think you’ll see that gap very close. Moving to Israel, the hardest part is basically ending one life and starting another one. New friends. New locations. Sometimes new languages. It’s definitely not easy. Anybody that tells you it is easy is lying to you. But at the end of the day, if you take pride in your Jewish heritage, and your homeland, and being with your people, yes, it’s absolutely worth it. Being in a place where you don’t have to worry about being who you are. That everyone walking down the street is basically treated as family. Because we are one big family. Having all the holidays celebrated by everybody. Having everybody observing Shabbat (more or less - not talking about religious observance, but it being a day of rest.) also, a lot of American Jewry wants to critique Israelis and how we do things here, but they want to do it from thousands of kilometers away. That’s not very fair. Come here and get citizenship. See what it’s like. If for some reason you absolutely hate it, go back to America. You don’t lose your citizenship to America. Also Corey - PLEASE start removing subtitles automatically on RU-vid. Your videos always have them automatically trigger it on when no other video does, but when there is translation necessary, such as your Arabic videos, or your Hebrew videos, they already have translations that you do. So, by putting another translation through RU-vid, on top of that, every single video, we have to go trigger that off.
I like that when you wrote we are one big family,because we are..as a british jew,being jewish in the uk is a novelty..to be surrounded by other jews i would find strange,my sister has been to israel but I haven’t,i hate flying and i spend my holidays in spain but i would at some point like to visit
Israeli citizens pay 7% of their income for health care tax (non-elective health care). 2020-2021 school year average tuition USA: in-state student - $10,000 out-of-state-student-$23,000 private college- $38,000. Israel: state student - $3000 private college - $11,000. The median U.S. income in 2021 was $70K vs. $38k in Israel.
Surprised none of them mentioned that there are benefits to having a Jewish prescence in the US, many are in high-places and can align US foreign policy to helping Israel. If all the world's Jews lived in Israel, I think overtime the foreign policy of many countries would change regarding Israel.
Lol I think that you see israel, 8 million citizens, and the country have more Innovations than countries with 90 million citizens, I think that all the jews going to go to israel, israel will be way stronger and smarter than now.
the woman in the restaurant is a typical "grass is greener on the other side" person. Anyway, phrasing the question as "your quality of life is going to be A LOT LESS" is ridiculous. America - which is facing a downward spiral, skyrocketing antisemitism, rise of populism, housing crises, failing healthcare (if we can even call it that), etc - isn't the land of milk and honey. You've got people making, what many would perceive as, great salaries not being able to afford homes, one disaster away from bankruptcy/homelessness, and so on.
The USA are wealthy if you consider GDP, but if you consider the average wealth per citizen, almost all European countries surpass them. Additionally, in Europe, there are no taxes that only exist in the USA, healthcare is public, and there is greater freedom. Today, the USA is similar to governments in dystopian novels, and all of this is demonstrated by statistics. The USA has an infant mortality rate of a poor nation.
You seem to not know anything about Europe nor US or you're a kid. Because it's a common knowledge that tax is wild in most European countries. In most Western European countries tax is more than 40% of your salary on average and you literally think Europe has no tax!! Also that's way more than the US in general. Ando also salaries in the US are better on average than most European countries.
@@evothenew3333 The problem is your ignorance and your frenzied nationalism. On average, a US citizen is poorer than a European citizen, pays non-existent taxes in Europe, and believes that in the US he is privileged. Unfortunately, he does not have the same rights and services that are available in Europe. He eats illegal crap in Europe, and when he gets cancer, he has two choices: lose hundreds of thousands of dollars or use the right to own assault weapons, which is so strongly defended in the US, to shoot himself and prevent his family from ending up in Californian tent cities. Change the channel, your film shows how much you live on rhetoric and little on statistics. GDP only shows that the wealthiest people in the world are concentrated in the US. Statistics also show that you have an infant mortality rate that is incomparable to ours, a lower life expectancy, and if you want, I can continue to make you cry. Here, the police do not kill people indiscriminately. You are the one who does not understand where you live. Look for statistics that weigh on the typical citizen and not the ones used to measure the wealthy. The millionaires in your country pay less taxes, on this I agree with you.
This is an individual question. The man from Costa Rica nailed it. If an American Jew wants to make Aliyah let him do so. If he wants to stay in America, let him stay. I’m Canadian and I love both Canada and Israel but I would never leave my country. But that’s just me. My grandfather’s sister made Aliyah in 1950. My grandfather stayed here. Their choice.
I wonder whether the so called "American quality of life" really matters, once that if one got a big house and a big car, one would have to sell it when facing their hospital bills. There are a lot of retirees in the USA who are affected by high blood pressure, diabetes and many other illnesses, then they move out of the USA towards a cheaper country where they are able to elevate their quality of life plus having a high purchasing power as well.
Vast majority of Americans can handle their medical costs. And retirees have free healthcare. That's why so many people are moving to the US, even from places like Israel. Some 140,000 Israels moved to the US from 1990-2017, in contrast to 80,000 Americans moving to Israel in the same time.
The economy is not great? Seriously? Look at a hotel room in Tel Aviv, then look at a hotel room in Jordan, or Saudi Arabia, or Lebanon, or the Emirates, from the same hotel chain. You WILL see a difference in price, a massive difference. The economy must be doing very well if it costs four times as much to stay in the Israeli branch as opposed to the others in the region. For real.
In what way? Is it very different? My cousin’s husband is Israeli, but they live here in Australia. My cousin will visit Israel, but does not want to live there.
yep it is even not free the israel authority always push back any critic and protest if they do not want to follow government regulations angaints all people if they fight
The entitlement of Jews moving to Israel and celebrating their rights to citizenship that Palestinians don’t have- with generations of history on the land - is so appalling and shameful. None of them give Palestinians a thought. Yikes. 😩👹
While the premise of this video is fundamentally flawed, the response from the first person was moving in the right direction. They were from America, and arrived at a young age. That is an example of the question you should be asking. Should American Jewish families move to Israel? That is one version of this question. The responses will be mixed, but as a culture that encourages marriage, children and strong families ties that answer could most likely be "yes," and for a variety of other reasons, the answer could also widely be "no." Contrary to popular belief, not all American Jews are rich and moving from one bad or rough situation to another in a foreign country doesn't seem like an enticing proposition. Should single, unwed entrepreneurial American Jews move to Israel? That's another version. It doesn't help if you have no stake in the responses either way, except to capture the most entertaining responses, and attempt to present fair & balance; which doesn't really exist.
@Annoying Jewologist Kalergi plan is actually what white western Europeans tried to do to sub-Saharan Africa in the 1900’s. They wanted to displace the natives either through genocide or simply outbreeding them, then the Europeans would have all the land and native Africans would have gone the way it native Americans. Maybe they’d even have built us a casino like they do for native Americans 😂 That’s the true kalergi plan and it failed due to Europeans shooting themselves twice in the foot with two huge wars that used up all their manpower, their resources, and their will.
Cory... the woman who said she has not renewed her passport crystallized how this question should be refined: Should חילוני (secular) American Jews consider making aliya? She crystallized why it makes intuitive sense for religious MOTs to consider moving to IL... but the many comments here proclaiming quality of life is more than money are likely stemming from a connection to religiosity, whereby its actually a minority of the 6M American Jewish community who are דתי (observant). Thoughts?
A Blessed Shavuah Tov To All Am Yisroel And Friends Of Zion. The Jewish People have returned, reclaimed and re settled their ancestral homeland of Eretz Yisroel.
@@rosem5041 Yes; Zion a geographic location for the People of Israel to return to but has been manipulated by a 19 century nationalist reinterpretation to also mean at the expense of the other non-Jews.
@@bethelonely2629 There are at least 6 non Jewish ethnic groups that live freely in our Jewish State. Some even serve in the IDF ( and consider themselves Zionists)and the in Knesset. The only complaints we hear are from Arabs influenced by Hamas and Fatah. They are free to leave.
@@Linda43 Bibical Zionism is for when after the messiah comes. Modern Zionism effectively removes that (messiah) part from the torah and says that it's whatever they want it to be.
Yeah, I really have a high quality of life here in "Silicon Valley" doing my laundry by hand, bathing in a washtub, getting around by bike. I make a whole $20k a year now. Seriously, for someone coming from Ethiopia making aliyah has got to be a big step up. But for me, well, the US economy is a good thing for the connected, not so good for the non-connected. Fortunately I grew up poor in the way that's unique to the US among OECD nations and I know tons of hacks to survive. I think for me, moving to Israel would be a huge step up. I'll have a trickle of retirement money from US Social Security and I think it will be like Fish, meet Water.
I think that the premise of the question overestimates the quality of life in the US. Maybe it's a relative thing, but the quality of life in the US isn't that great. Housing is very expensive, medical care is expensive (even with coverage), and the cost of higher education is through the roof. Also the benefits and social protections in the US are among the weakest in the developed world. Except for cancer, health outcomes are not great in the US, and so the life expectancy is less than in other developed countries. The quality of K-12 schools is highly variable. The list goes on and on. Maybe Israel is even worse. I don't know.
we all think the neighbors grass is greener. USA has more superficial material wealth, cars big houses and gadgets are cheaper, but the important things - healthcare, education, safety are expensive. in Israel it's the other way around.
Sorry to burst your bubble but there are plenty of American Jews who are very tight financially, we have bh great communities and support each other but it’s not always easy to leave relatives and as the Lubavitcher Rebbe said, if you are needed to help the remaining Jews, you think about them and stay to help them, you don’t leave when you are needed.
To be fair, Corey doesn't revise the questions he receives. It would be better if he did ... But then viewers would accuse him of manipulating and propagandizing. They do so now anyways, but there would be more of them. That said, I agree with your statements. (Hi from New Jersey)
It depend being Jewish is important to them. It Chance that their grandchildren will stay Jewish is slim. The pot of beef will always be larger in the US.
Hello from Cape Town Corey. I enjoy your content and learnt a lot. Thank you. I don't know what that chap from South Africa is talking about. We have freedom here in South Africa irrespective of your religion or race.
I think "Freedom" can have several meanings beside the political meaning. I am Israeli and while traveling in South and Central America felt the freest I have ever been in my life.
@@jonathanrotem251 That might be true, with regards to different interpretations of the word freedom. However, I think that South African chap meant it in a political sense. Which was untrue. Safe travels.
Israel has a quality of life that is pretty much as high as in America, except it is maybe higher, like they have universal healthcare and never have to worry about dying from a curable illness because they couldn't afford it, or going bankrupt over it. The people in this video saying otherwise are just deluded by American media and the phrasing of the question.
@@solvingpolitics3172 Yeah and in the US you'd never have to worry about your children getting randomly murdered at school right? Or thousands of people dying because they couldnt afford healthcare? If you compare it, I'm sure that per capita far more people get murdered in the US than in Israel.
Every year Israel is top ten in the world Happiness index, much higher than the USA!!! Quality of life in Israel is very high, and Israelis are happy with their life there, despite the conflicts they have with their Arab neighbors... I live in the USA, and I can tell you that quality of life here is not that great... We work hard and pay tons of taxes, the homeless situation is getting worse every year, crime and drugs issues, and we also have crazies with guns killing innocent people and kids in schools... Would LOVE to live in Israel one day. Much cleaner and safer.
Thank you bro, I need your video I have been thinking to go to Israel and make Alliyah , now I am in Guatemala, came from Canada and my kids were refused in a private jewish school after 1 year out of the school, but befores heading to Guatemala, I ask to G.d to show me my true path. I have enough to buy a decent place in haifa, and see my kids grow. Thank you and Shanatova Umetuka
No, it wasn't. That was media hype, as usual. Everyone was saying you couldn't travel to Israel without a vaccine, but you only needed to do a PCR test. I don't know why people listen to the media instead of looking at the government website.
Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” John 13:5-8 ESV You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. John 13:13-17 ESV
Why is assumed that Americans have such a great living standard? Clearly, we are armed to the teeth for no good reason and ready to attack each other over a traffic incident or someone cut in front of us in the supermarket line.
2nd guy (the 1 with sunglasses and without shirt) was straight forward; depending on things like and and willingness to join IDF. Housing prices are expensive, so there surely is a financial incentive to move to settlements. Basically, the more people move to Israel, the higher the prices and minorities pay the ultimate price
Well I'm from UAE and Israel is close neighbor to us and I'm an Arab and many of my friends visited Israel but Israel in its essence it's not made by its natives it's a country made and founded by Ashkenazi White Jews of Europe and the society on Israel is communitarian basically were Persian Jews refuse to give up there culture bcuz obviously its 8000 years old and middle eastern Jews who are the original Jews and European Jews are different. so it's a country made by Jewish migrations simply then why American Jews cant move out? it's not like your papa brought the land did he? Israel in its essence is a country for Jews all over the world and now African Jews are being discriminated and Uthopian are not even welcome ! why the double standards ? or your saying that only Jews who survived the holocaust there children can live in? it's not hating anyone but there should be a principle that you catch up too and live by! if your going by nationality concept then Israel's Jewish foundation's collapse! bcuz it's a country made for Jews all over the world not for Israeli citizens. Israel adapted to middle eastern culture highly and indeed it's a part of the middle east but this mintality bad.
Every American Jew can move to Israel. The people in the video only commented on whether or not the American Jews will like it. They will not try to revent such immigration.
@@jonathanrotem251 Israel is started to get more and more nationalization movements and patriotism movements and Israel has it's own culture in the middle east besides of being Jewish ! now Israel banned Ethiopian Jews to migrate in Israel and many latin countries too despite being Jewish Zelensky of Ukraine is a Jewish man from Ukraine he asked for Israeli army support but Israel out of fear of the super power Russia didnt help but banned Ukrainian Jewish migrants ! Israel has an intelligence and army and police and etc. despite problems in between Jews and muslims in Israel a Muslim Israeli well most definitely serve in the army and police and can die defending his country well you die defending Israel in Israeli army ? this is called patriotism. Holocaust is long dead era of history and anti semetism is a dead era too and Arab Israeli wars are fully finished and all arab and Muslim countries are in peace with Israel including Saudi Arabia and Turkey and UAE and Jordan and much much more so Arab Israeli war era is finished ! US is a fully western European liberal and secular and free minded nation as a society and country why would you want to move to Israel ? are you persecuted in US ? obviously no! stay in your country it's better ! Israel is for Israelis obviously and America is for Americans ! Jewish Muslim Christian atheist no religion Agnostic bhudist hindu or whatever you are its your personal issue you still remain an American !
lol no, Jews were the first inhabitants of Israel, then they gradually moved to Europe as the Muslim colonizers came, then after ww1 and ww2 Jews came back to Israel peacefully, but Palestinians started rioting, even though the Jews were peaceful at first. Then on the day Israel got its independence (back then Israel didn't even have Jerusalem and was split in half) they were attacked by Palestine and other Arab nations, they weren't the aggressors, against all odds Israel won and took back it's rightful territory of Jerusalem. The Palestinians started it, now they'll suffer the consequences
It’s mind boggling to know that some people are soo ignorant that they don’t know that Palestinians are as real as the Easter Bunny! When you are invented by the KGB in 1964 you are not a people. You are a terrorist plot!
They can go to Yemen..Saudia..Qatar..kuwait..Iraq..Emirates..Tunisia..Egypt..Syria…Jordan..and 100 other Arab places..as long they want to see us destroyed they can go to other places
The "Palestinians"? As in the people who vow to destroy the nation of Israel, if it's the last thing they ever do? Those "Palestinians"? I simply can't imagine why Israel wouldn't welcome them in to do just that? I guess Israelis are simply irrational and unreasonable for not dropping dead at the enemy's demand. Such evil! 🙄
The Palestinians didn’t claim Palestine until the 1960s. The Palestinian flag wasn’t made until the 1980s. And if you simply look at history, there was never a nation called Palestine. It was just territory continuously annexed by various countries after the Romans kicked the Jews out of the Levant and sent them in exile. Also, there are already many Palestinians living in the Levant right now. So what are you even complaining about? 🤦🏻♂️
Not only they should stay in the US, they should convince their friends and families to move back with them to the US. Enough of playing terrorist to your neighbours
