Permanent or Temporary?

August 29, 2007 - 4:00 PM by

If you’re an Israeli living abroad, how many times have you told yourself and others: I’ll be going back before the baby starts 1st grade..? Or: ..before the youngest is bar-mitzva’d? Or: after they finish college?

Sound familiar?

It is. And Israeli writer Roni Floman has just published a book on the dilemma Israelis abroad, specifically those in Silicon Valley, face vis a vis “should I stay or go”.

Temporary or Permanent addresses “the issues that Israelis living outside of Israel have to deal with, especially around the issue of moving back – or not.”

Most Israeli’s will tell you that they have plans to move back to Israel sometime in the future. The joke is most plan to move back “when the kids graduate college”. As Roni says, most of the time, the kids are the excuse for either staying abroad, or coming back to Israel…. at any age….

writes Israeli VC on Sand Hill Road.

The book’s in Hebrew and can be ordered here.

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