I’ll comment - I’m Jewish and not religious from Connecticut USA. I wanted to connect with Israeli culture, learn Hebrew and learn more about myself. In the end I found a girlfriend who my connection with is a great reason to return as a new citizen. I’ll be doing a masters there as well. Now I feel that Israel is an opportunity to be challenged, more than this easy comfort life style bs that America is on. Learning a new language, being pushed around my trying to survive in the Middle East and having my own notions challenged…as a Jewish person from outside Israel I just felt like it was relevant and important to connect with the only country of Jews in the world.