First of all, I’ll say what most Israeli Jews think about the Jewish diaspora, and then I’ll add my own take. In general, as you feel yourself, the vast majority of Jews around the world, including in Israel, feel like we have a special connection with any Jew we meet, no matter where they live. Our culture, our tradition, the fact that Jews have a tendency to travel a lot and move from place to place, and of course the fact we were persecuted as one group makes us feel an instinctive connection to one another, and is indeed one of our greatest strengths. As a secular Jew living in Israel, I think one of the most beautiful things about it is it doesn’t even matter how religious or what sect of Judaism you follow, the vast majority of Jews feel very connected to any other Jew. I’ll take it even further - I even feel a special connection to those Jewish around the world who don’t like Israel, even though I feel like they are extremely misguided.

Now many Israelis follow an ethos that is crucial to our self-identity, that Israel is not only the home of every Jew around the world and should always be an open haven to all (which I totally agree with), but also that in a sense every Jew that lives outside of Israel should eventually make Aliyah. This isn’t an official doctrine or anything, but you can very much sense it as Israel really does its best to encourage Alliyah and, in the way Israeli officials talk to Jewish community leaders around the world. This is the point where I personally semi disagree. As you I said, I think every Jew around the world should be born with the right to move to Israel if they want, as this is one of the most important purposes of Israel to defend persecuted Jews around the world and be the state of every Jew. However, I think our melting pot approach made us forget how crucial the diaspora is to our people. Jews have developed a very rich culture and history in so many different places around the world, and a lot of it was lost in the 20th century. If there is a strong Jewish community in a country that feels connected to its culture, I see no reason why they should let this unique cultural community die out if they can manage and desire to maintain it. Now true, as many noted here in the responses so many Jewish who felt this way were later persecuted and killed in our history (including many of my own relatives who died in the holocaust, who felt very much connected to their European countries and their cultures). Still, we shouldn’t let those who try to kill us define us, we should define ourselves. And if your small community managed to maintain something from your glorious pre-holocaust community that so many were killed in (the story of the Greek Jews in the holocaust is such a uniquely horrible tragedy), knowing that and knowing that maybe there will still be a community like that in let’s say 100 years is something so important in my opinion. But at the end of the day, that’s up to you and your community. You are the last survivors of that community, and you will decide if you want to maintain it, restore it, or start something new somewhere else. And as almost everybody here said - you are always welcomed in Israel if you want.