As a Reform Jew who scarcely visited Israel in three decades and whose vision of retirement once tended more toward New England than Netanya, Robert Bernstein is not the likeliest candidate for making aliyah. But after raising three daughters who

are passionate about Israel and planning to study there before college, Bernstein, 54, has decided to buy a vacation home in the Holy Land — and says he would consider settling permanently one day, depending on his children’s plans.