There’s No Place Like Israel
Yehonatan Geffen
1981
Sometimes, when I return from a trip abroad, I try to imagine that I am a new immigrant. You know, the first time that I arrived in Israel from the Diaspora, with all the pekelech 1 and hopes, and thinking that now everything would be different. It is hard for me because this truly is my country, but I imagine that in many ways it is like stepping…
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