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(Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from Rabbi Kahane (z’l)’s “Time to Go Home”)
Immediately launch an emergency campaign in all Jewish communities to convince Jews of the gravity and reality of the situation and to persuade them to take urgent steps toward their return to Israel. To this end, we will train and send speakers to Jewish communities in all parts of the United States. Print a document that highlights this topic and includes facts and arguments about the deepening crisis in America. This includes the dangerous influence that anti-Semitic groups have on the future of Jews in America and the growing cancer of assimilation.
4. To educate Jews toward positive reasons for living in Israel, including the normality of Jews in a Jewish state with a Jewish culture.
5. Register individuals, families, communities and entire institutions to return home. This registration will include complete information about their background, occupation, skills, family situation, and income in order to help these people obtain employment and affordable housing in suitable areas of Israel. The Aliyah Project places particular emphasis on large-scale door-to-door campaigns in urban areas where social and economic (and security) conditions have deteriorated to the point that Jews are willing to seriously consider making aliyah. The campaign will place special emphasis on the religious obligation of the return of observant Jews, and will promote the campaign in religious institutions and neighborhoods. Local chapters of the project will be established in every Jewish community. These chapters lead educational campaigns in their local communities and also serve as vehicles for a national movement to register those wishing to return. It will fully inform the people about social and economic issues related to collective aliyah, especially in the areas of housing, employment, and schooling, in order to act as a counselor and agent for individual Jews seeking return. . The commission will collect a long list of names and present the list to appropriate aliya institutions and departments to ensure viable cities for returnees with affordable housing accommodation, planned facilities and employment. We plan to work together towards the goal of creating , villages and settlements. Her 15-20 percent of the inhabitants of these areas will be Israelis. Campaign organizers will screen each individual’s occupation, occupation, and skills with Aliyah authorities to facilitate employment. Organizers and local community branch leaders will encourage private investors to create jobs in Olim by investing in job-creating industries and factories. Project organizers will work with the Israeli government and private investors to determine exactly what types of industries are needed that are most likely to guarantee fair returns sufficient to induce private capital investment. We plan to confirm this. Local directors will hold regular meetings of Jews interested in aliyah, where discussions about Jewish identity, Israel, and our aliyah will be facilitated. In Israel, special emphasis will be placed on the cities, villages, and settlements of Judea and Samaria, equipping them with the housing and economic expansion necessary to accommodate large numbers of olim. The project establishes strong security and defense groups in Jewish communities across the United States to protect Jewish communities as the situation worsens and buy time for Jews to understand the urgent need for evacuation. work on something.
The above is just an outline of the Habayata movement that should be established as soon as possible. Yesterday was the right time for such a movement to begin. It’s very late today. Tomorrow may be too late.
The danger is real. Our world today is very different than it was just a few years ago. Time will pass more quickly. Events overtake us at unexpected and surprising speeds. We no longer have time to predict and plan like we once did. We are called to act now.
