Faces of The Fellowship: Zurab, Tamar, and Nitsa

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“I want to thank you very much for helping us with our first steps in our new country!”

Zurab and Tamar are so proud of their one-year-old daughter, Nitsa, who learns more and more Hebrew each day at her new pre-nursery play group in Israel. The family recently made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) on a Fellowship Freedom Flight, and they haven’t looked back since.

For Zurab, life in Israel has always been a dream, instilled in him as a young boy because of his grandmother. “My grandmother always used to tell me that I must go back to my homeland,” he recalls. “She’s not alive any longer, but she always said I must go back. This is our homeland.”

“Our parents and siblings are still in Georgia,” says Zurab. “We wanted to come, learn the language, and get jobs before the rest of the family joins us. I’m studying Hebrew during the evening and Tamar is studying during the day. After that, we hope our parents will come sometime in the future and we’ll all be able to live together in a big house.”

Zurab feels especially thankful that Fellowship volunteers answered all of their pre-aliyah questions and that they were given the necessary funds to begin their new lives. “We were in phone contact with The Fellowship’s representative until we got on the plane. She answered all of our questions,” says Zurab. “The financial assistance was also important. When you come to a new country and you don’t have anything, it’s a big help.”

Overall, the family feels very blessed. “I want to thank you very much for helping us with our first steps in our new country!” says Zurab. “With your help, I know we’re going to succeed.”

We believe they will succeed too. And thanks to our global Fellowship partners, we continue to fund Fellowship Freedom Flights to give many more Jewish families like Zurab’s the chance to start over in their true home, Israel!

Learn how you can help more Jewish people make aliyah on future Fellowship Freedom Flights.

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