Emigration from Israel

[galvez]

www.washtimes.com/world/20031129-115546-1459r.htm

Excerpt:

"Alarm over emigration levels is growing among Israel's political leadership as the country's Jews seek to escape the violence of the Palestinian uprising and deepening recession.

"The government wants to bring another million Jews to Israel by 2010. Yet figures released by the ministry responsible for helping new immigrants show that an estimated 760,000 Israelis are living abroad, up from 550,000 in 2000."

[LuvSpune]

Id leave if I lived there, not only becasue of the violence but to get out of mandatory military service

of cousre maybe so many people wouldnt flee if they could actually have peace there.

One thing I like to say (as a joke) is "its not a middle east crisis, its middle east culture"

[Melnorme]

Hehe, the military ain't so bad. I know, because I've done it

[Arawn]

Alot of them are moving to Germany apparently, or at the very least, taking up dual citizenship with German passports.

[Melnorme]

Immigration to Germany is more of a Russian Jewish phenomenon. Most Israelis probably go the USA.