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Venezuelan Jews Are Moving To Israel To Escape Deepening Poverty
Washington Post ^ | 01/01/2017 | Ruth Eglash

Posted on 01/01/2017 8:02:13 PM PST by goldstategop

EIT SHEMESH, Israel — When Daniel Oritz moved to Israel from Venezuela , his first meal was a bowl of chicken soup. He took one spoonful and began to cry.

For him, the soup signified an escape from the poverty and deprivation he has experienced for more than two years.

“We were very hungry,” said Oritz, who moved in November. “There was no meat, no sugar, no pasta.”

Venezuela’s economic crisis is so severe that citizens must wait in lines for hours at grocery stores to buy basic staples, or pay exorbitant prices on the black market. Some have even died of basic illnesses because of a shortage of medical supplies.

Tens of thousands have left the country, including a growing number of Venezuelan Jews who have relocated to Israel.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliyah; israel; jews; rutheglash; venezuela; washingtonpost
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Venezuelan Jews are making aliyah. Destitute Jews are beginning a new life, thanks to the state's generous basket of benefits to help them adjust to their new home in Israel.
1 posted on 01/01/2017 8:02:13 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop

He will bring them home from ythe four corners of the earth.


2 posted on 01/01/2017 8:13:58 PM PST by PrairieLady2
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Venezuelan Jews are making aliyah. Destitute Jews are beginning a new life, thanks to the state's generous basket of benefits to help them adjust to their new home in Israel.

They will show their gratitude to the great nation of Israel by learning Hebrew and their young will carry arms in the defense of their new and wonderful nation.

I lived in Venezuela in the 70s. It was a wonderful nation then but with many faults. It will recover at a great price to its people. It will be violent, very violent. Much blood will be shed.

3 posted on 01/01/2017 8:14:33 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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Very sorry for the Venezuelan people, but there is also a message in this.


4 posted on 01/01/2017 8:18:09 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: bigbob

Spanish speaking Jews? Move the UN to Israel. They can represent every country.


5 posted on 01/01/2017 8:29:33 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Don’t move it anywhere.
Dissolve it.


6 posted on 01/01/2017 8:37:21 PM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: goldstategop

Feel the Bern.


7 posted on 01/01/2017 8:38:49 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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“Very sorry for the Venezuelan people.......”

Seems as I recall, the people of Venezuela voted for Socialist Chavez and his hand picked successor Maduro more than once. Looks like they are getting what they voted for.


8 posted on 01/01/2017 8:39:28 PM PST by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: goldstategop

Finally, some immigrants and refugees the Left can hate.


9 posted on 01/01/2017 8:43:25 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: cpdiii
A pal from the 90’s took an assignment to Ven to overhaul a very profitable fertilizer plant. He and his wife lived just outside the city and were arrested, then released for “crimes.”

Their oil company employer sent a biz jet to a nearby airport without notice.

They left all their possessions but saved their lives.

10 posted on 01/01/2017 8:44:39 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: goldstategop

ISAIAH 11:11-12
11
In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time
to bring back the remnant of his people—
those who remain in Assyria and northern Egypt;
in southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam;
in Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands.
12
He will raise a flag among the nations
and assemble the exiles of Israel.
He will gather the scattered people of Judah
from the ends of the earth.


11 posted on 01/01/2017 8:51:13 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: goldstategop

It seems a shame that it took poverty that grinding to make them want to go.


12 posted on 01/01/2017 8:58:14 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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It probably won’t be opposition from Christians, but help from Christians, that will speed this.


13 posted on 01/01/2017 9:00:19 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Ancient prophecies being fulfilled in our day. Amazing.


14 posted on 01/01/2017 9:26:02 PM PST by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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To: goldstategop

What in God’s name were they doing there to begin with?


15 posted on 01/01/2017 9:26:34 PM PST by onedoug
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A number of Latin American countries took in Jewish refugees before and during WW2. My friend Ruth ended up in Boliviare when she couldn’t get into the US or Cuba (the SS St. Louis was not allowed to dock there and was forced to return to Germany where the passengers were killed. Thank the anti-Semitic U.S. State Department for that and other anti-Jewish actions).

Ruth told me proudly that Spanish was her second language, not English, which she learned years later after immigrating to the U.S.

The anti-Semitic State Department was a prime mover in denying efforts by European Jews fleeing Hitler from getting into the US and Cuba. Other Latin American countries bravely let many in and saved thousands of lives, despite efforts by resident German Nazis and sympathizers to prevent it.


16 posted on 01/01/2017 10:08:58 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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“Very sorry for the Venezuelan people...”

I’m sorry for those who had Chavez shoved down their throats, as for the rest of them they brought this all on themselves and their countrymen. The fact that nobody has put a bullet in Maduro’s head shows what a feckless nation it is.


17 posted on 01/01/2017 10:24:51 PM PST by jocon307
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To: onedoug

Not really being sincere about believing their ancestral promise... that’s what they were doing there.

They are going to get starved and persecuted out of some places.

Other places, like the USA, will help them go to Israel (Christians will do this).


18 posted on 01/02/2017 12:43:27 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: jocon307

Ah man, it seems such a puzzling mystery.

But people will put up with virtually anything if anarchy is the other choice.


19 posted on 01/02/2017 12:44:22 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: TheDon

About 10 years ago I was praying and received a word from the Lord. The message was “go home... to Israel.” Though it was unclear to me if it really was from God when after I told my folks about it they pretty much laughed it off. Not literally but you know, the gist was that since I’m not a deeply religious church-going follower like they are, I couldn’t possibly get a prompt like that from God himself. I’m not Jewish, never been there and so I didn’t understand why it would be called “home” and I should be there. Then I found out paternal greats were Jewish with a last name change upon entering US. But we can’t trace anyone back to the land of Israel. Just wondering if any other Christians have a thought about it.


20 posted on 01/02/2017 2:03:44 AM PST by kelly4c
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