Almost 10,000 olim made thus far in 2010, of whom 2426 came from English-speaking countries, according to data released by the Jewish Agency on Tuesday. Each one has a unique story to tell.
Some, however, the most unique of its kind.
Ian Daniel took Chesir Tiran, for example, a couple of observant, gay New Jersey and three children adopted black - Eli, Yona and Tamar.
Chesir Terans made to him last week by the Jewish Agency in cooperation with Nefesh Nefesh, but unlike most of the newcomers, and the members of this family is not unusual for strangers in a strange land. In fact, they're already minor celebrities. Earlier this year, they participated in the Israeli version of the reality television show Wife Swap, which includes members from two families trade places with different backgrounds, so for two weeks.
"Channel 2 has decided to air immediately after the incident we have moved to Israel," said Ian, barely audible on the religion of his small children to play in background, in a telephone interview from his new home in Kibbutz Hanaton.
"Suddenly, we were on TV commercials all the time have been recognized on a daily basis a very positive way."
Ian (39 years), which called for Jewish and a lawyer. A partner, and Daniel (40 years) is a psychiatrist. Both wearing kippot and the observance of Jewish ritual. The couple have been together for 15 years and decided to move to Israel permanently after spending a period of one year in Jerusalem.
"We were living in Jerusalem in the last year as part of training in my Judaism, and we had a year of manufacturing and experience," said Ian. "When it came time to plan for a return to the United States realized that it would be very difficult for us to do that, so we decided to make our move to Israel's permanent.
It's a place where we see ourselves as the ability to build our family. "
Him those were not without sacrifice.
Said Ian wants to continue his studies of Jewish, but not find a place that can be accepted.
Would have to moonlight as a lawyer to make ends meet. Daniel focuses on bringing the children at the present time, but you want to resume lecturing at the university level, as it did in the United States.
A week after a long and busy and Ian expressed frustration with the Israeli bureaucracy and discrimination against same-sex couples.
"Just today we had a difficult situation where we tried to register for the believer, but we will not list in the same way they were a couple of different sexes. When I went to the post office gave me a separate registration as well."
When asked whether the bureaucracy and prejudice against gays and weaker intention to become part of Israeli society, has the opposite effect.
"If anything, this only encourage us to do more so that we are recognized by the government, and not just for us, in our favor, though certainly - - but also for future lesbian and gay couples who have taken him. But there are many of the work that remains to be done in Israel, just as in America.
We know that getting on the scale of it there responsibility to give back to society. "
What about the children? Is it because they worry that their children, being black, may suffer from discrimination? Ian said it is not more or less worried that it would be in the United States. He said that here, at least, and all the other children at school are Jewish.
Society for a keyword Terans socially minded Chesir. For this reason, opted to move to Hanaton, a group of 20 families, hoping to activate a kibbutz in Israel's only official of the conservative movement.
"Our goal is to become members of the kibbutz," said Ian. "What excites us about the transition Hanaton is that of equality, and human society and pluralism, and we hope to contribute to this."
Michael Kaplan's line of work involving the transmission investigations in outer space, and the transition from the Boulder, Colorado, to Jerusalem should be relatively easy endeavor.
Kaplan, 54, had mad cow disease in space physics from Princeton University, and Ministry of Social Affairs in the research, development and management and a Masters in Electrical Engineering, both from George Washington University. But he feels that the term rocket scientist "" did not adequately describe what he does. Instead, it's more of the scheme of the space age and problems.
"I look at the priorities of scientists and try to line up resources," he said. "My job is to put this strategy, see where they are research and solve problems. For example, if the vehicle weighs more than necessary, and we look forward to how to make it lighter. You could say that I work the front person development, but with a very important hello technology. "
Kaplan has been involved in several projects with Boeing, NASA, and the establishment of the Ministry of Defense. Participated in the Star Wars project, and the intercontinental missile defense system, and was part of the team that put together a proposal for the orbit of Venus radar that would draw a terrain.
Among the projects most interesting was working on the possibility of sending a probe to Enceladus, a moon of Saturn kit.
"We think it's ice shell," he said. "A lot of people think that there is liquid under the oceans, and it can even be life."
Kaplan until last December, which is absolute, had never set foot in Israel. This was the month over the 20 - day visit with one of his sons, and fell in love with this country. Gal, Safed, Jerusalem, Ein Gedi, and when he returned to his home in Boulder, he longed to return.
"Although I was in the house of Boulder, I felt I was not really home," a relationship. "I was going to meet with my Rabbi in the morning, I woke up that day, I decided I would make him. And my rabbi said to me when we met, 'something has changed in you'. I told her I had decided to make it, and she looked at me and said: "Beware of Jerusalem syndrome," mental illness which affects the senses of visitors to the holy city.
Kaplan laughed in the note, but just to be on the safe side back in April for a taste of daily life. After his second visit he knew with certainty that it will not come back, this time for good.
Earlier this month, Kaplan him and things are looking up. He was staying with a friend in Jerusalem until he finds his own place. At the same time, he was going to Ulpan and started dating someone.
Once he gets his security remove perhaps before the end of the year - Kaplan of Israel will join the aviation industry, and companies lining up to sign the player.
"Nefesh Nefesh This procedure addressing amazing. They got me in contact with retired Air Force pilot, Danny Grossman, and said that Israel needs you," he said. "I discovered I was in demand: All Elbit and Israel Aerospace Industries is interested in me."
Have developed a single family setting a new record for him when he arrived on Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport: four generations of relatives got off the plane, after all decided to move to Israel together.
Amelia Glaser, the matriarch, is 94 years old. She was born in New York, she did not leave the United States and only recently received the first of her passport.
Her grandparents came to the United States in the mid-1800s from Latvia.
Her daughter, Joan (63 years) and his son, inlaw Eliezer Entel, 64, shared with their daughter, Shana (34 years) and her husband Yitzi Wurtzel, 35 years, and Wurtzels' four daughters ranging in age from 10, six, five and one. They chose Ramat Beit Shemesh home.
The family, and less than four days in the country, is unable to answer questions before the paper went to press.
