When Dovid Tauber and his family moved to Israel, it was originally just so he could attend medical school, with the long-term goal being to eventually return to the Jewish homeland. The family planned on being in the Philadelphia area for Tauber’s residency, but at a certain point when they were in the process of moving, Tauber and his wife realized something: they were meant to be in Israel.

“We were getting ready to leave and go back to America and we just looked at each other like, what are we doing? Why are we leaving? So we knew that we wanted to come back sooner than later,” he said.

The seed of return was already planted in the family’s mind, but it was the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — the Oct. 7 massacre — that really spurred action.

“Then Oct. 7 happened. And

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