Moving On: Replanting a Life in Israel

I moved to Israel on August 1, 2018, very unsure, at the time, whether it would be a permanent move. The immediate culture shock led me to start a diary, which I maintained for two years. After around nine months, I reduced the frequency of my entries as I understood that it was necessary to switch from "outside observer" mode to "would-be integrated citizen".

The download link to the diary is provided below. Rather than reading it straight through, it might be more enjoyable to jump into the middle at some random point, before going back to read from the beginning of the diary; because my first few days were quite hard, bootstrapping a life from zero in a language that I could not speak.

Moving On: Replanting a Life in Israel

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