About an hour before her flight, Adi Cydulkin was reflecting on the journey with her father, Dov, and brother, Yuval, who will remain in Jericho, L.I. Yuval is the only member of the family who has never lived in Israel.

More than anyhthing else, Adi felt relieved to be done with the paperwork required to reactivate her Israeli citizenship after more than a decade in the diaspora. “They don’t make it easy,” she says. “I think I started about six months ago. You fill out a lot of forms.” Among the requirements: Producing a record of her parents’ travel in and out of Israel.  “It’s doable; its just very tedious.”

“You almost feel as if they dont want to do [this],” said Dov Cydulkin, “If someone wants to [return], and there are not too many people who want to, they should make it easier and encourage them.”

Did Nefesh B’Nefesh ease the burdern? Adi shrugs. ”I cant imagine how it would have been worse.”

On arrival, Adi will spend a few days with her grandmother in Haifa before settling in to her new life in Tel Aviv. She doesn’t have to wonder what it will be like.

“I’m just looking forward to going back,” she says while waiting to board the chartered flight with 204 other olim. “This was just a vacation for me while I finish preparations. I already know from my time with MASA what its like.”

Her mother is aleady in Israel, and her father imagines it won’t be long before he’s on a plane. “I have to bring her some stuff,” he says.