{"id":1271,"date":"2011-12-19T07:24:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T07:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2011-12-19T07:24:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T07:24:34","slug":"ten-reasons-why-it%e2%80%99s-better-to-make-aliya-in-2011-than-in-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/19\/ten-reasons-why-it%e2%80%99s-better-to-make-aliya-in-2011-than-in-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten reasons why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s better to make Aliya in 2011 than in 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a guest post, written by my son Ben in honor of my sister&#8217;s aliya <strong>tomorrow!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben arrived in Israel in 1984, a day before his 17th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Telephones<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cellphone networks did not exists in 1984<\/li>\n<li>In 1984, getting a landline phone installed in your house took months, and in some cases took up to 10 years.<\/li>\n<li>In 1984, payphones were often out of order. They worked only on telephone tokens.<\/li>\n<li>In 1984, if you wanted to make an international call, and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a phone in your home you had to either call collect or go the telephone room in the central post office. There you paid about $2\/minute and the post office took an extra 8% cut. They explained it this way, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every minute is five seconds less.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This meant that you paid for a minute, but only got 55 seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Inflation<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aug 1984 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 14%<\/p>\n<p>Sep 1984 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 18%<\/p>\n<p>Oct 1984 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 19%<\/p>\n<p>Nov 1984 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 16%<\/p>\n<p>Dec 1984 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 4%<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2011 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2.5%<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Email<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, Email was available only to university staff and people who took university courses requiring use of a computer. Businesses used Telex\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. (Faxes were not in widespread use until the 90s.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Public busses<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, only express bus lines were air-conditioned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Television<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, there was one Israeli channel. In many parts of Jerusalem, you could watch Jordan TV. At high altitudes you could also receive Middle-east TV from Lebanon. Cable and satellite television service was not available. Importing a satellite dish large enough to receive American television was illegal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Israeli Currency<\/h1>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of 1984, the largest denomination bill was worth only $3.50. My friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father bought a Volvo in 1984 with a duffle-bag full of bills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Foreign Currency<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, it was illegal to change Shekels outside of banks. It was illegal for Israelis to own foreign currency except for traveling outside the country. (Yitzchak Rabin was ousted from his position as Prime Minister for breaking this law.) Everyone I knew bought shekels only on the black market.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Hi-Tech business sector<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did not exist in 1984<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Modiin<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did not exist in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Travel Tax<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, Israeli citizens had to pay $100 tax in order to leave the country<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Food<\/h1>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1984, ketchup was watery with red food coloring<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, the only mustard available was actually mustard flavored mayonnaise<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, the only chocolate available was Elite (whose factory was inRamat Gan)<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, low fat cottage cheese was unavailable<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, fresh baguettes were unavailable<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, supermarkets did not bake bread and pastries<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, bagels were unavailable<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Ben\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">19 Dec 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a guest post, written by my son Ben in honor of my sister&#8217;s aliya tomorrow!!!!! Ben arrived in Israel in 1984, a day before his 17th birthday. &nbsp; Telephones &nbsp; Cellphone networks did not exists in 1984 In 1984, getting a landline phone installed in your house took months, and in some cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[91,93],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life","category-israel","tag-family-life","tag-israel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}