 The 33-year-old data analyst and statistician from Kalamazoo, Michigan, wound up in Israel in his mid-20s after living in Japan. He loved it in Japan, but fell out of place as a young Jew. That pull to belong led to Botchnik to Israel around seven years ago. So you show up, you don't speak Hebrew, you've never been to Israel, but you're Jewish, so you're welcome home, they say, when you arrive. As a new immigrant, he wanted to fit in. He learned to speak Hebrew.