reestablishment of Jewish sovereignty<\/a> and society in the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Students](\"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/f_auto,fl_lossy\/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822\/737356\"\/)
Students wait to greet Israeli President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog at Moriah War Memorial College during his state visit following a deadly mass shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, in Sydney, Australia, February 10, 2026. (credit: Rohan Kelly\/Pool via REUTERS)David, Sharon Parry join four kids, one grandchildren in Israel<\/p>\n
Why Zichron Ya\u2019acov? This bucolic Haifa district town is where David and Sharon Parry\u2019s oldest daughter, Gabriella, who works in public relations for Israeli start-ups, lives with her husband, Joe, and their daughter \u2013 the Parrys\u2019 only grandchild, with another on the way.<\/p>\n
All four Parry kids made the move from Australia to Israel. Natalie and her husband, Yehuda, live in Jaffa; she is a senior data analyst. Mia is a Middle Eastern studies student at Shalem College in Jerusalem. Jacob, soon finishing his IDF service, has built up a 40k-strong social media presence (as @jakey_parry on Instagram) and is an actor in Michael Aloni\u2019s new theater company, HaMakor.<\/p>\n
\u201cSharon and I are incredibly proud that they all made the decision on their own to make aliyah and found their lives and communities and passions here,\u201d says David, who\u2019d happily spent his morning having breakfast with his granddaughter and then taking her to preschool.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were incredibly happy in Perth, and it was a great place to raise our children. But we always knew it was temporary.\u201d<\/p>\n
David and Sharon carve new path after arriving in Israel\u00a0<\/p>\n
BOTH DAVID and Sharon embarked on new careers after arriving.<\/p>\n
David completed a tour-guiding course in English at the University of Haifa School of Tourism, received his license, and opened a website, TourWiseIsrael.com.<\/p>\n
He is partnering with Israel Maven Tours in Jerusalem to offer three-day guided tour packages for English-speaking immigrants who want to explore their adopted land with peers: one to the Galilee and Golan in October and March (israelmaven.com\/tzafonatour) and one to the Negev in January and February (israelmaven.com\/negbatour).<\/p>\n
David says he was always \u201can avid student of the extraordinary history, geography, and geopolitics of Israel and had visited many times. But after making aliyah, I finally had the time and space to tour and study this incredible land in depth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a privilege it is to guide people in the country that has contributed to the world like no other and to help explain what is, perhaps, the most misunderstood place on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n
He has discovered that the professional skills he developed as a judge are equally valuable as a tour guide: \u201cmastery of facts, weighing different perspectives, clarity of expression, the ability to communicate complex issues to people from all backgrounds, and treating every person with respect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sharon\u2019s transition was more complicated. She has a doctorate in physiotherapy, with a specific interest in the deleterious health effects of desk-based work and how to mitigate them.<\/p>\n
For the 18 years prior to aliyah, she was a university lecturer and researcher, and ultimately an adjunct professor of physiotherapy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only negative aspect of our aliyah story is that the bureaucracy defeated her in converting her degree,\u201d David says. \u201cThe Health Ministry decided that, although she was registered as a physiotherapist in Australia, because she was employed as a \u2018lecturer\u2019 and not a \u2018physiotherapist\u2019 for 18 years, she would have had to prove the number of hours she did in clinical training for her bachelor\u2019s degree, which was 40 years ago. That was impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Therefore, Sharon decided to apply her expertise to a related endeavor: running workshops for companies, particularly hi-tech companies, on how to improve the workplace to prevent health problems of sedentary workers. Through her website, MoveWiseActive.com, she\u2019s also offering workshops on fall prevention for seniors.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe found something based on her experience that\u2019s even more meaningful,\u201d says David. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping to do a bit of collaboration, combining her workshop with my tour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though the couple has studied spoken Hebrew at ulpan, they work exclusively in English and have gained a close circle of friends in Zichron from English-speaking countries. Together, they take trips around Israel, play pickleball, and spend time at the beach.<\/p>\n
David hopes for uptick in tourism<\/p>\n
Of course, like all tour guides here, David is hoping for an uptick in foreign tourism.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d ideally like to guide delegations and missions; I\u2019m in touch with organizations from Australia and North America about that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an incredible pent-up demand to come to Israel. There is a thirst to see the country. The second [that] flights open, tourists flock in.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s simply no other place like Israel, no other place that was the crossroads of the world from the beginning. I would love to show not just its beauty and history, but the depth and meaning that lie beneath the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n
Married 35 years, the Parrys are happily starting over in Israel.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s such an incredible blessing to be here. I really feel it was the mission of my life to facilitate my family\u2019s return to Israel,\u201d David emphasizes.<\/p>\n
\u201cComing from the outside, we appreciate so much that we live here according to Jewish time; that the Jewish holidays and the rhythm of Jewish life are part of the culture of the country. I will never take that for granted.\u201d \u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I felt the mission of my life was to get here,\u201d says David Parry from his home in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14304,972,85,8697,46,1619,43],"class_list":["post-614130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-aliyah","tag-australia","tag-il","tag-immigration","tag-israel","tag-magazine","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}