Anita and Joey: In my experience the salient categories for Israeli men are the same as they are for most men: attractive, smart, funny, kind, fun, etc. The difference with Israeli men (at the risk of making a gross overgeneralization) is that they - for better or worse - tend to have little to no context for Liberal Rabbis/Reform Rabbis/female Rabbis. That's the first (non) issue - they have very little baggage with Liberal Judaism and female Rabbis. They're not scared of us, because they can't quite conceive of us. (Which is both a blessing and a curse). The second is that many of the secular Israeli men I know have either dated or been friendly with very religious women in the past - observance is more 'normal' in Israel than it is here - so that what constitutes "religious" for them is different than what constitutes "religious" for an American Jewish man who went to public schools, was raised in a Reform Synagogue, last encountered Judaism in a real way at his Bar-Mitzvah, and is ambivalent about being Jewish to begin with. So at the risk of making another gross overgeneralization, I think Israeli men tend to be more comfortable with their Jewish identities, less worried about seeming "too Jewish" via who they're dating and perhaps - perhaps - less preoccupied than Americans (or New Yorkers) about the career path of their significant other. Dates with Israelis - perhaps for cultural reasons - are some of the few dates I've gone on in New York that haven't felt like job interviews. My Israeli boyfriend, when pressed to talk about my career choice likes to say, "Look - if it makes her happy - I'm happy. What she does is her business, not mine. I'll love her no matter what she does." (Though it probably doesn't hurt that I speak Hebrew, want to raise Jewish children, and every now and then like to have lots of friends over for Shabbat dinner.)

And that, as Joey says, IS refreshingly open-minded.

**All of this is based on anecdotal evidence, of course.