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Arriving in Ben Gurion airport on the morning of August 5th, 2019 (Catherine Szkop)
“We just need to get Catherine on that plane to Israel”, an old camp friend said as she helped me dig through piles of garbage bags in search of my missing laptop. They say that no young person moves to Israel without experiencing some type of trauma beforehand and my personal journey before I arrived wasn’t easy, to say the least. Aside from the expected pre-departure stress of preparing to move to another country thousands of miles away from my home state, last year I came back to the US after my summer internship in Warsaw to discover the majority of my mother’s house in ruins and my perso