Re: 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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