German Jewish Family Recounts Ordeal of Living in Israel !

• German Jewish family recounts ordeal of living in Israel! 
  by Marianne Azizi, http://www.redressonline.com/ 
  Binyamin Netanyau has been very vocal in urging Jews around the world to go to Israel, which he claimed is the best place, the safest place, the only place for Jewish people to live.
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  Hana Gan, a pregnant Canadian woman, believed it and became trapped. More stories like hers are coming in, and we now learn that another Jewish family – this time from Germany – wants to give a stark warning: Do not move to Israel.
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  Below is a verbatim translation of the Knyazhinsky family’s testimony, as the family prepares to take legal action against police and social workers in Israel.
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  Knyazhinsky family’s testimony
  In January 2012, in our town in Hamburg, a meeting took place that was initiated by the Jewish Agency with the aim of persuading the German Jewish people to emigrate to Israel, under a programme called Naale. The meeting was chaired by Sergey Cherniac.
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  It was always my dream to give my children a better education, and they had already attended a Yeshiva Orthodox [Jewish] school in Berlin.
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  “From the minute we arrived, the authorities started to cheat us”
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  The Jewish Agency tried to persuade us to emigrate to Israel. It claimed that my children had no future in Germany, that their only future was in Israel, and that if the kids studied in a Yeshiva they would not have to join the Israeli army. Our family would have a great opportunity to learn a new profession. It also promised that our family – a big one – would get an apartment from Amidar, which is an Israeli company responsible for government and subsidised housing. Our children would go to kindergarten, and we were told the educational standard in Israel was much higher than in Germany and that education would be free.
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  In addition, the Jewish Agency claimed that the Israeli healthcare system was the best in the world and that our family would be given discounts and benefits. It said that it would provide funds for electrical appliances and that, after we finished our study in the Ulpan [where Jewish immigrants to Israel learn the basic language skills of conversation, writing and comprehension] we would be given a cheque for 3,000 shekels [about USD 756]. Medicine and medical care would be free as in Germany and our children would be much happier in a new environment in their new homeland – Eretz Israel.
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  The Jewish Agency representative promised us they will bring our possessions in a 10-tonne container. However, after the container was moved to Sefad, our belongings were stolen by the Israelis! All of my children, with the exception of my eldest daughter, were born in Germany and German was their mother tongue.
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  We emigrated on 18 July 2012.
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  From the minute we arrived, the authorities started to cheat us. It had been agreed beforehand that we would be placed in Afula [the former Arab village al-Afuleh, just north of the occupied West Bank]; that the children would continue to learn in German and that we, the parents, would get new jobs in intelligence. Instead, they put us in a town called Katzrin in the middle of nowhere in the [occupied Syrian] Golan Heights – hours from any major town or city – and promised us that after we learned Hebrew in the Ulpan, would we be moved to Afula to stay.
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