Public Figures Call For Tel Aviv Jews To Move to Israel

“Tel Aviv is a wonderful city – a great place to visit, you might say.”

Jerusalem, April 29 – Prominent members of Israel’s cultural and political scenes urged their brethren living in one of the Mediterranean’s most thriving, luxurious  cities to embrace a higher calling than their current abode encourages, by making Aliyah.

Celebrities and other figures in Israeli society came together yesterday to issue a joint call to the Jews of Tel Aviv to demonstrate a commitment to historical and national awareness, and come home.

“We acknowledge, appreciate, and celebrate the achievements of our Tel Aviv brothers and sisters,” the statement read, “and at the same time must express our conviction that the only true home for Jews is Israel. Especially in this fraught time when each new week brings news of another attack on Jews abroad, we feel compelled to invite our fellow Jews to make their shared future with us in our ancestral homeland, where, even if we struggle to do so, we protect ourselves from the dangers that too many of our Jewish family face beyond our borders.”

Signatories of the call include President of Israel Reuven Rivlin, Chief Rabbis Yitzhak Yosef and David Lau, musicians, television personalities, and more than a dozen entrepreneurs. Commercial real estate magnate David Azrieli added a personal message to Tel Aviv Jews, assuring them that in Israel they could enjoy much of the same high-quality cuisine, culture, and trappings of their Tel Aviv environment, but with the added bonus of living among their own nation and remaining steeped in cultural traditions that denizens of Tel Aviv must labor to assert and preserve.

“Tel Aviv is a wonderful city – a great place to visit, you might say,” proclaimed Mr. Azrieli. “It has been welcoming to Jews since its establishment more than a hundred years ago. As Jews we owe Tel Aviv gratitude and appreciation for its tolerance, openness, and warmth toward those of the Hebrew persuasion when so many other locales pursued hostile, intolerant policies against us. But as our lore and tradition have always taught us, Israel is our source, our home. We have wandered for thousands of years, longing to return, and now we have already returned in great number. Join us, Jews of Tel Aviv, in this epic, historic restoration, and come home to Israel.”

Organizers of the statement disclosed that if the Jewish residents of Tel Aviv heed the call in sufficient numbers, the group plans to issue similar statements inviting the Jews of Ra’anana, Ramat Beit Shemesh, Efrat, and Jerusalem’s Ramat Eshkol and Har Nof neighborhoods to move to Israel as well.

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