” Why do so many people have a problem COMING HOME?”
In our case the answer is simple: I have been told quite definitively that I will never get an academic job in Israel no matter how good I am, because it is a closed system. My wife would easily get a job as a primary care physician, but since the salaries are about one third of those in the United States, she would have to default on her medical school loans which is an issur d’oraita.