We arrived in Israel on July 8th, 2025. It had taken a year of paperwork to complete our application to immigrate. We arrived on a flight with about 50 other new immigrants and completed most of our processing at Ben Gurion Airport (TLV), just outside Tel Aviv.

We thought that Nancy’s Israeli citizenship was still valid from when she made Aliyah in the 1980s, but the Ministry of Immigration disagreed and decided to classify her not as a returning citizen, but as a new citizen due to her nearly 40 year absence – other than many vacation visits. Fortunately, after navigating the bureaucracy for several months that’s all straightened out, and Nancy and I are now both dual citizens of the United States and Israel.