QUOTE(Natanel @ Nov 9 2006, 02:34 AM) [snapback]702725[/snapback]

When do you thinks the best age to make aliyah?
Best? As in ideal? Before you're old enough to remember it. But b'dieved either right after high school or right after you get married depending on what job you want to do, what kind of educaiton is important to you, and what type of person you want to marry.
Personally, I think if all the people who go back to חו"ל to find their bashert who will also want to live in א"י and then "somehow" just get stuck and say that they don't fit into Israeli society or have big issues with חינוך in Israel would all stay in Israel when they were single, then all together, there would be more of a "normal" community of all those people who they had to go to America to find normalcy still in Israel. Please excuse the run-on. And Israel is a lot smaller than America, Jerusalem easier to walk in an afternoon than NYC... There are less places for your bashert to hide.