When we say we are America Kan, America Here, we are referring to the American opportunities available to anyone in America, and we want that here, “Kan,” in our society, in Israel.

Take, for example, The Levi family, formerly of New Jersey, who decided to pack up their home and move to Israel.  It had always been a dream of theirs to live in the land where their ancestors had resided for thousands of years and where the national holidays were the same as the Jewish ones they celebrated. 

Being accustomed to a certain standard of living, they brought their furniture and household appliances with them and set up house in Ra’anana.  Having worked in the family hardware business for many years, Mr. Levi sold his share to his younger brother, and took his profits and savings with him in order to open his own business in Israel.

Without the American Aliyah Organization, Nefesh B’Nefesh, assisting their aliyah process, they would have encountered a lot more difficulty and red tape, and they knew they were lucky to have used them.

As he began to jump through the hoops that the government had set up for him on his quest to open his business in Israel, the joke he had heard, “How does one make a small fortune in Israel?  Come with a large one,” began to seem like less and less of a joke.

If only there had been a person or organization that Mr. Levi could have turned to for assistance at this juncture in his aliyah process; someone with the know-how, someone he could trust; someone like the America Kan party.