[lbo-talk] Israel demographics?

[Jesse Lemisch]

These figures are quite startling. They are indeed voting with their feet,
in a way that has to have an impact in Israel and even possibly on their
politics (though I can't be optimistic about this). Is there any work,
beyond Doug's observations, concerning the emigres' reasons for leaving,
politics here, etc.?

Jesse

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Israel demographics?


>
> 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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