“There were 100 of us at the Jewish Agency’s Ulpan Etzion Absorption Center in Jerusalem. We were from every country you can think of, all joined by the goal of making aliyah and living a happy Jewish life.”

“My aliyah was always very present with me,” says Ewa Misztal, 28, who fulfilled a dream many years in the making when she immigrated to Israel from Poland in January 2007. Ewa first visited Israel ten years ago as a guide for March of the Living, a unique program that takes high school students on a two-week journey – first to Poland and then to Israel. By the time the trip was over, Ewa knew that she wanted to live in Israel. More