500 North American Families Make Aliyah To Israel

A North American Aliyah wave is expected to bring about 2,300 new immigrants home to Israel in the coming months, totaling about 500 families.

The move is not only practical. It is a return home.

Avi Lichtschein, who is making Aliyah with his entire family, told ynet that Israel is where they want to build their children’s future.

Coming Home

“There is no other place in the world where we want to raise our children, with the love, kindness, Torah, and brotherhood that exists in Israel,” Lichtschein said.

“Our children are still young enough for Israeliness to become part of who they are. We want them to be Israeli from day one.”

His words reflect a deeper story taking place across Jewish communities in North America. Families are not only moving to another country. They are choosing the Jewish state as the place where their children will grow, speak, learn, and belong.

A Different Reality Abroad

Lichtschein also described how Jewish life in North America has changed.

“Every time we hung posters of the hostages, they were torn down within a day or two,” he said.

“You see slogans about ‘genocide’ and all kinds of things like that. These are things that were not part of our lives before.”

He also pointed to the security presence at the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York.

“I went to the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York, and I had never seen security like there was this year,” he said. “They blocked streets with garbage trucks to prevent a situation where a car might try to run over Jews.”

Choosing Israel

For many Israelis, the story carries a clear message. Even during war, pressure, and rising antisemitism abroad, Jewish families are choosing Israel.

They are choosing Hebrew, Torah, brotherhood, and the shared destiny of the Jewish people.

That choice echoes one of the central promises in the Torah. In Deuteronomy, Israel is told that even if his people are scattered “to the ends of the heavens,” God will gather them and bring them back to the land of their fathers.

For thousands of years, that promise lived in Jewish prayer, memory, and identity. Today, for families leaving North America and making Aliyah, it is becoming a lived reality.

Aliyah has always been more than immigration. It is the return of Jews to the land where Jewish identity becomes public, national, and rooted in daily life.

For Lichtschein and hundreds of other families, that return is becoming real now.