This is just one of the reasons why we support Israel. There are MANY many more that have made Aliyah. Not to mention we have a very large population of Jews. Just something to think about.
Three soldiers lost their lives battling Hizbullah in southern Lebanon on Tuesday: First Sgt. Michael Levin, St.-Sgt. Yonatan Einhorn, and Lt. Ilan Gabbai.
Originally from Philadelphia, Michael Levine, 21, had been living in Jerusalem for the past five months. He made aliya as a lone soldier when he was 18 and lived on Kibbutz Tirat Tzvi before enlisting in the army.
"Michael was visiting his parents in the US when fighting erupted up north. He decided to cut his vacation short and come back to join his platoon," Tziki Aud, head of the Jewish Agency's information center for new immigrants, told The Jerusalem Post.