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Kane
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Hey everyone. Kane here, 47, from Johannesburg. I run a medium-sized manufacturing business — about twenty employees — and making aliyah has felt impossible for the past fifteen years because of it. My wife has been ready since before we got married. My two adult children are both in Israel already — one in Tel Aviv, one in Modi'in. My parents are gone. My business is really the last thing holding me here.
I have spent the past year working with a South African business consultant on an exit strategy — either selling or transitioning the business to a manager while I remain a non-executive shareholder remotely. It is complex but moving forward. The SARB foreign capital allowance and SARS exit planning are consuming significant professional fees but I understand why they matter.
JAFI SA application is underway. Interview scheduled for next month. Wife is ecstatic. I am nervous and excited in roughly equal measure.
Planning to settle near our son in Modi'in — the community there sounds excellent and the proximity to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv without being in either city suits us.
Would love to hear from anyone who sold or stepped back from a South African business before making aliyah. The emotional as well as practical side of that transition interests me.
I have spent the past year working with a South African business consultant on an exit strategy — either selling or transitioning the business to a manager while I remain a non-executive shareholder remotely. It is complex but moving forward. The SARB foreign capital allowance and SARS exit planning are consuming significant professional fees but I understand why they matter.
JAFI SA application is underway. Interview scheduled for next month. Wife is ecstatic. I am nervous and excited in roughly equal measure.
Planning to settle near our son in Modi'in — the community there sounds excellent and the proximity to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv without being in either city suits us.
Would love to hear from anyone who sold or stepped back from a South African business before making aliyah. The emotional as well as practical side of that transition interests me.