On Aug 3, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Jesse Lemisch wrote:
> I appreciate the responses but wish for some generalization. Are
> people
> saying that there is significant migration from Israel to the US?
> If so,
> why: why are they leaving? Is it easy for them to get into the US? Are
> people leaving Israel for other destinations? And please recall my
> original
> posting, concerning emigration as possibly some pre-political
> expression,
> people who perhaps approve of Israeli aggressiveness but more and
> more don't
> want to live with its fruits. Or is this a misreading?
Met an Israeli hedge fund guy the other day - smart, worldly, cynical, thought the invasion of Lebanon is a disaster. He used to divide his time between Tel Aviv & NYC - now he's here.
From the Israeli bizpeople on the UWS I've talked to, they were sick of the economy, sick of Histadrut, sick of war.
<http://www.cabalamat.org/weblog/art_428.html>
According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (see http:// www.cbs.gov.il/yarhon/e1_e.htm) here is the balance of movement of Jews into Israel (immigrants and potential immigrants plus Israelis entering, minus Israelis leaving): 1995: +32K 1996: +50K 1997: +22K 1998: +46K 1999: +47K 2000: +38K 2001: +23K 2002: +12K 2003: - 9K first 2 months of 2004: -13K !! Perhaps for the first time in Israel's history, the flow of Jewish immigration has reversed. Israel is now a net exporter of Jews to the diaspora. Extrapolating from the first two months of 2004, it is likely that the numbers for the whole of 2004 and 2005 will be at least -50K, larger in magnitude (but opposite in direction) than the average annual immigration into Israel in the previous decade.
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