An ulpan or a matchmaking use for immigrants?

Ulpan Etzion, a fullness core of a Jewish Agency, is renouned among immature immigrants to Israel, though for a opposite reason than we might have thought. On Thursday of this week, another division of Ulpan Etzion ended, during that 216 immature immigrants from 40 opposite countries complicated together. During a march of a semester, a sum of 32 immigrants, who met any other for a initial time during Ulpan Etzion interconnected off into 16 couples, according to a Ynet report on Friday.

“It was value entrance to Israel to find adore here,” Dana Rubel, a amicable workman from New Jersey, told Ynet. Rubel met her fiancée, Eitan Amzalag, a counsel who immigrated from France, during Ulpan Etzion. Dana and Eitan became intent 3 weeks after assembly any other and are now formulation their matrimony that will take place in Oct in Jerusalem. “It was adore during initial sight,” Dana said. “We both adore any other really much, adore Jerusalem where we met and adore Israel.”

Argentinian economist Yechezkel and English clergyman Laura also met during Ulpan Etzion. “We met in a initial week of propagandize and we’ve been together since,” they told Ynet. “Now that we finished a studies in a ulpan, we’re relocating to a same area in Tel Aviv, where we’ll continue to be a couple.”

“Sometimes we feel like a matchmaker,” executive of Ulpan Etzion Ziva Avrahami pronounced to Ynet. “I attend a weddings of ulpan graduates who immigrated to Israel from opposite tools of a universe and met here by us. we feel like I’m a family member from a groom’s side as good as a bride’s side. It’s a good payoff to run an fullness core where each morning we feel a clarity of goal and have an event to rivet in suggestive work.”

Hundreds of immature adults, many of them singular college graduates, immigrate to Israel each year by a Jewish Agency. They live during a fullness core for a initial 5 months, while training Hebrew, furloughed a country, acculturating themselves to Israeli multitude and eventually forging careers, and for many – matrimony and families.