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Aliyah profiles

Which situation is closest to yours?

Eight situations, each split by your starting point. Featured examples are people who arrived in 2023 to 2026; labelled supporting stories from 2020 to 2022 and older studies, used as background only, fill the gaps. They show what success looks like, where it goes wrong and who helps for free.

Your starting point: tier A, B or C

How an aliyah goes depends a great deal on what you arrive with. Every profile is split three ways.

Tier A
Secured income and a cushion
Tier B
One of the two
Tier C
Neither

Check yourself: three yes or no questions

  1. Will you have secured income from day one, worth at least 50% of your monthly costs in shekels? An Israeli job offer, a kept remote job, a pension or a running business counts.
  2. Could your savings, plus money you still have to transfer, cover 12 months or more of your household’s costs?
  3. Can you actually use those savings in Israel? Not frozen, not blocked by sanctions and not tied up in property you have not sold.

Question 1 is income. Questions 2 and 3 together are the cushion. Income and a cushion: tier A. One of them: tier B. Neither: tier C.

Nothing here is recorded. It is a reading aid, not an assessment.

How these profiles are built

  • Examples are people who arrived in 2023 to 2026. A few stories from 2020 to 2022 appear as supporting examples and are labelled. Nobody who arrived before 2020 is used as an example.
  • We summarise each story in our own words and link to the original. We publish no quotes in this version, because we have not yet checked them word for word.
  • Published stories rarely say how much money people arrived with, so most examples cannot be placed in a tier. Where a pattern rests on one or two stories, we say so and give the count.
  • Every claim names its sources at the foot of the page. Published sources are linked; our own research files are marked as not yet published.