When Judi Rowland first voted in an Israeli election, she had been living in the country for barely a year.
She had made aliyah from Manhattan with her husband and adult son in October 2021, during the COVID pandemic. Her daughter was already living in Israel, and the move reunited the family. But when an election came around, Rowland, 70, realized there was another part of Israeli life she had yet to understand.
“When I say clueless, we were clueless,” she told The Jerusalem Report in a recent interview.
This time, she is determined not to be.
Rowland has spent time with her Hebrew
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