More families re-unite in Promised Land

Olim from Ukraine are among those who more than anyone crave to reunite with their families in Israel. The conditions in which people live in Ukraine are getting harder with every passing month. Unemployment, low salaries, unstoppable increase in utility costs and incredible growth of prices. Jewish people in Ukraine have no emotional comfort; they feel oppressed and unsafe because of anti-Semitism and radical ideas that infect more and more young minds. All these factors combined urge Jewish people towards their historical motherland. Here we have two examples. Galina Tunik’s sister and elder daughter with her children live in Israel (Nof HaGalil). Galina’s own family suffers a lot in Ukraine. Her husband is unemployed and their daughter Aleksandra is disabled. At the age of 15 Aleksandra is still unable to read or write. If they remain in Ukraine, they will have no future, literally. Whilst in Israel they be protected by social programs, they will have jobs. Danuta Brushnitskaya fell apart with her husband several years ago, and their elder daughter Ilona left for Israel after graduation on a special Masa program for university graduates. He liked it very much in Israel and persuaded her younger sister Polina to try studying in Israel, too. Polina undertook the Naale program, but it doesn’t provide automatic citizenship. This fact made Polina return to Ukraine urgently to receive a repatriation right together with her mother and return to continue studying as a citizen of Israel. The mother and both her daughters are as happy as can be. All the olim are immensely thankful for the financial help that enables them to leave for Israel as soon as possible and forget all the hardships, fears and humiliation.