Alyah

Alex, a 27-year-old Jewish drug dealer who lives in Paris, plans to do his Aliyah and move to Israel for the chance of a better life.<ref name="variety"/><ref name="lesechos"/><ref name="obs">Guillaume Loison, [http://cinema.nouvelobs.com/articles/20869-critique-critiques-alyah-delie-wajeman Alyah d’Elie Wajeman] , ''Le Nouvel Observateur'', 18 September 2012</ref> His brother, Isaac, keeps pestering him for money.<ref name="variety"/><ref name="lesechos"/> During the course of a Shabbat dinner at their aunt's house, we learn they lack parental support.<ref name="variety"/> Alex's desire to move to Israel is not so much grown out of Zionism, but because nothing holds him back in France, in spite of his recent encounter with a gentile girl, Jeanne.<ref name="variety"/><ref name="lesechos"/><ref name="obs"/> The final scene highlights Israel's multicultural culture.<ref name="variety"/>