Jewish Agency tries to kill the goose that laid the golden egg

When I made aliya (emigrated to Israel) in 1991, I can say with all due modesty that materially it was a tremendous self-sacrifice. We left our parents in the US (Mrs. Carl's parents made aliya three years after we did; as most of you know my Dad still lives in Boston and my Mom passed away two years ago), sold our house for barely what we paid for it, and set out to live in a 59-square meter