I have found in my experience as a lawyer that single women olim who are Anglo and do not speak Hebrew are in a very vulnerable position in Israel. Here I am referring to women who come to Israel when they are 30 and older.  Often they do not have the ability to earn a living. They do not have a social life, they are isolated and lonely. They do not learn to speak Hebrew and they feel very alienated here. What is worse some of them that I meet seem to have gross psychiatric problems and I wander whether they came here to escape from their lives elsewhere because they had psychiatric problems. Or maybe the stress and hardship of life here made them have these mental problems

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