Israelis abroad feel that they are missing out on the real action, so they harass the MK or minister who came to visit. Throughout history, lovers of the Jewish people have tried to find a place to live that would distance it from danger or from the hostile eyes and hands of the gentiles.
In 1825, a Jewish journalist named Mordechai Emanuel Noah tried to establish a Jewish settlement called Ararat on an island in upstate New York. He predicted that it could comfortably house six million Jews, and today it does not even have a synagogue.