No one will miss them especially those that chose IDF instead of US Marines. Of course it would feel much more commendable if they decided to surrender their passports and renounced their citizenship, but ,...

The U.S. is in turmoil--racial issues will kill this country--for young people with children or wanting to start a family, Israel is the place.

At least 1 in 2 leave within the first 3 years. It's denied but it's fact. The Zionist dream ends up as demotion, depletion of the bank balance and disillusionment. Of all my own circle,only a fraction have remained.

Wait till some Haredi graybeard finds fault with their ketubah, their great grandmother's birth certificate or who knows what and then they're kids can't be married and their Jewishness is denied; then they'll return home.

Israel went from secular zionist socialism to a capitalist theocracy, and no one told the Olim. Its good for building character and curing Judaism.

The cost of yeshiva tuition means you need to have a hedge fund if you want to be Jewish. Cost typically $60,000 for a family of 4. Add in taxes and you need to make $100,000 just to Send your kids to yeshiva (food, rent, clothing are extra) Who can do this?? This is why so many leave to Israel (3700 a year mostly modern orthodox, which only account for a few hundred thousand) over the course of a lifetime, perhaps half will leave

for the good reasons.They came here to get and not to contribute.