(9. Mai 2013) „It‘s strange,“ says Avisar Lev, 35, nestling into the snug armchair near the window. „I immediately felt at home in Berlin, for the first time in my life.“ When he and his wife, Noa Golan, moved to the German capital three months ago, they only took their most important belongings: their cat Buja and their dog Lucy.

All the restrictions and constraints of their Israeli life were left behind.