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Bye, the beloved country - why almost 40 percent ofIsraelis are thinking of emigratingAccording to a new survey, more than a third of Israelis would leave the country if they could,citing economic opportunities as the main reason. Who are the wannabe leavers, and what canbe done to induce them to stay?

By Sivan Klingbail and Shanee Shiloh | Dec.15, 2012 | 1:42AM| 60

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The idea of emigrating from Israel is present at every family dinner in the

home of Shirlee (Haaretz has her full name), a scientist from the center of

the country. More accurately, its conspicuous by the absence of two of

her three sons. Her eldest son, Nir, 28, left Israel last February to join his

brother Idan, 27, in Toronto, where hes been living since completing his

compulsory army service. The youngest brother is about to begin his

military serv ice.

The sons move was gradual. Idan went to T oronto to study and worked as

a security guard for El Al while he was in university. He also became

involved in the Jewish community and received a job offer from a large

local company. Ac cording to Shirlee, He had many opportunities there to

develop personally and professionally, without begging and without

favors, so he decided to stay.

His older brother joined him because he felt, as his mother puts it, that no

one cared about him here. The people that get

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preferred are the ones who dont serve, dont

contribute and dont work, and in the end there is the

difficulty of f inding a job that suits his skills and will

give him and his future family a decent living.

But even though Shirlee is able to identify with her

sons feelings, she regrets his choice. We did not

educate our children to leave, she says. We are very

involved and active socially, and we find it sad that

they do not see their future in this country.

Shirlees sons have not yet declared that they never

intend to return, but she is afraid they will find it hard

to come back. For her, its an ideological crisis. We

educated them that this is our home and our country,

and that its wrong to give up y our country. For us as

parents, it is very difficult. We are lef t alone and it also

involves a breakdown of values. This was not our

dream. In any event, Shirlee believes its the partner

of each of her sons who will be the one to decide

whether they return.

In her opinion, Israels finest sons and daughters are

the ones leaving the country. They are good, high-

quality people who can contribute -- from doctors andnurses to engineers. T he emigration phenomenon here

was once branded a fallout of cowards [by Y itzhak

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talented. They stand out abroad. They are considered

smart and successful compared to the Canadians.

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Shirlees gut analysis is interesting against the

backdrop of a survey conducted for Haaretz by the

market-research firm Meida Shivuki C.I., under the

management of Noam Raz and Merav Shapira. The

survey found that 37 percent of Israelis are

considering a move to a different country at some time

in the future. At the same time, its noteworthy thanonly 2 percent of those surveyed said they are certain

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The primary reason the potential emigrants cite is the

difficulty of getting ahead economically in Israel --

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to leave, he explains.

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to various data, most of those who are thinking ofleaving are not motivated by the security situation -- in

fact, its the exact opposite. When the security threat

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few emigrate at such times. Indeed, according to the

researchers, few Israelis leave for ideological reasons,

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even the emergency call-up orders, which have been

widespread in recent years.

According to the State of the Nation Report for 2011-

2012, published last month by the Taub Center for

Social Policy Studies in Israel, the situation of the

countrys y oung working families has worsened in the

past five years (not taking into account Arab and

Jewish ultra-Orthodox families, whose situation has

been even more aggravated).

Figures issued by the Organization of Economic

Cooperation and Development, of which Israel is a member, show that

Israel is lagging in most of the relev ant indices. For example, Israel is 29th

out of 36 c ountries in terms of investment in education. In health

investment, Israel is third from last. Israel is in 25th place in the quality-

of-life index and in last place in terms of government administration.

Whats happening today in Israel recalls the proc ess undergone by

Jerusalem, says Tomer Treves, a cofounder of URU (Wake Up), an

association that promotes a civil agenda for the country. Jerusalem, he

explains, lives every possible conflict every day. Those who left the city

over the years were people able to make a living, and the city grew poor.

Without state funding it would not be sustainable.

Treves terms this the moving of the capable. People are leaving, he says,

because of what became of the Zionist idea. The moment the tie with

Israel is weakened, the point of remaining is measured by the quality of

life, and Israel is not in a good place from that point of view.

Indeed, the Haaretz survey shows clearly that voters for right-wing parties

and people who are religiously traditional or Orthodox tend to say that

they will not leave because Israel is the central place of the Jewish people.

Not everyone who took part in the survey would agree with that

proposition. Treves: The right and the left in present-day Israel are in

dispute over one issue: where on our scale of identity we place Jewish

identity. T he more of a humanist and liberal you are, the lower you situate

your Jewish identity. I ts been like that ever since Benjamin Netanyahu

whispered into the ear of [the late kabbalist] Rabbi Kaduri, The leftistshave forgotten what it is to be Jewish.

Many of those who categorize themselves as belonging to the political

center or left will probably reject that claim (maybe even angrily).

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what it means to be Jewish and the way they grasp the states conception

of what it means to be Jewish. The moment the decision to live in Israel is

no longer based on values, economic parameters enter the equation -- at

which point no few Israelis think their future lies in other, greener

pastures.

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from the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of

Jerusalem, in the online journal Hagira (Migration) shows a rise in

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on the data for departures from the country as compared with arrivals.

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and did not return.

At the same time, DellaPergola hastens to point out that the situation in

Italy, where he was born, and in other Western countries is more acute. I

spent two months in Italy last summer, he says. T he situation there is far

more serious, particularly in terms of unemployment. The jobless rate is 9

percent for the country as a whole, but 34 percent among young people.

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many in Italy have nothing. Even people in their late thirties are out of

work. They do not marry and they live with their parents.

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2007 more than 100,000 Israelis also held citizenship of countries in

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Central and Eastern Europe, twice as many as in 2000. Obtaining a foreign

passport is considered a type of insurance policy rather than indicating an

intention to emigrate. Also noteworthy is the ethnic identity of those who

are getting the European passports: they are the children and

grandchildren of people of European descent generally speaking,

Ashkenazim.

It might not be politically correct to say this, but the Ashkenazim have

been transformed from being identified with the state into a segment of

their own, says Noam Manella, a strategic consultant and lecturer in

Israel and abroad about the effects of Generation Y --people born from

the early 1 980s -- on organizations and society. The A shkenazim have

become one more population sector, like the ultra-Orthodox, the Arabs

and the Russians, he says. Many Ashkenazim like to say humorously,

We have become a negligible minority in Israel, and then go on to ask

themselves, What connects me to the country? People today are looking

for belonging based on fields of interest and life values, not only national

belonging. If I feel alienated, then its preferable to feel that way in a more

comfortable location -- one that also offers me diverse and interesting

possibilities for professional development. A young Israeli start-up person

can feel more of a kinship with an American counterpart in Silicon Valley

than with the neighbor across the hall.

The reason the local connection has become weakened, Manella says, is

because the state itself unraveled the thread that links it to its citizens, in adecades-long process. He cites unequal army serv ice, religious

radicalization, the economic abandonment of the disadvantaged, and

sweeping privatization.

The country has become more religious, he believes, and people who

define themselves as liberals are finding it more difficult to connect with

it. Education Minister Gideon Saar, he adds, is trying to deepen peoples

connection with the state but is doing so by evoking controversial

symbols, such as sending schoolchildren on mandatory v isits to Rachels

Tomb in the territories. That is a big mistake in terms of understanding

the new ties that link people in the open world, Manella says.

The solution, he says, entails a renewed sense of belonging, which he

considers a national mission: At one time, people were connectedthrough large national symbols, but today the only thing that can create

the connection is mutual commitment, and the state has to seize that --

equality in bearing the burden. The existential danger that once connected

us is now separating us. Thats because the state has failed to generate

compensation or a fair exchange for the ex istential problem in our region.

The classic mistake is to try to connect people to the state through

patriotic sy mbols, when what they are looking for is mutual commitment,

he concludes.

Glass ceiling

When it comes to the reverse direction of migrants into the country

Israel occupies a special place. Its seventh in terms of the number of

immigrants in the country relative to population size. As a whole, the

phenomenon of migration between countries has been growing in recent

years. Ac cording to United Nations Population Division figures, in 2010

there were 214 million people living in a country different from the one in

which they were born an increase of 25 million in a decade.

In short, Prof. DellaPergola says, the rise in migration is a global

phenomenon. Switzerland has a higher emigration rate than Israel, he

notes. Switzerland seems like an ideal country and its population is

roughly the same size as Israels. The ex planation for the leav ing

phenomenon there is the limitations caused by size. The result is an

employment problem for talented people, who can easily find jobs

abroad.

In DellaPergolas view, the limitations imposed by size in Israel are more

significant and make many Israelis feel they have reached their own glass

ceiling. He chooses to illustrate his analysis from his own milieu, the

academic world. It frustrates me as an academic to see the number of

available teaching positions shrinking, he says. T hat is the problem

faced by small countries.


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Israels mobility index for academics is very developed, DellaPergola

says, owing largely to the large-scale cooperation with universities abroad.

Researchers nowadays talk about multinationalism, he says. Most of us

have more than one significant attachment in life, even though for most of

us the center of gravity lies in one location. Every emigrant can visit Israel

20 times a year if he wants. That influences the way we identify migrants.

Despite the world trend and the fact that people with a good education get

job offers abroad, DellaPergola believes that Israel can cope with the

problem. Policy in this regard needs to be reinforced, he says. We need

to think more about suitable opportunities for the population structure

here. When there is an educated population, as in Israel, the society needs

solutions of employment for the educated. Research and development

should be expanded.

In any event, DellaPergola emphasizes that Israeli society c ontinues to be

very optimistic. He draws on UN data, which are untainted by bias, he

points out. The situation should be grasped as an opportunity, not a

calamity. There are people who spend a day here and a day over there,

five days in London and the weekend in Israel. The concept of who is a

migrant needs to be revised accordingly; obstacles have to be removed

and help should be given to those who want to live and work in Israel.

According to the hard data, the scale of migration in Israel is three leavers

per 1 ,000 residents. Michal Sabah, a doctoral student in demographics atthe Hebrew University who also works for the Central Bureau of Statistics,

notes that in comparison with developed countries -- such as, among

others, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia -- migration from

Israel is low.

Every society has a migrant profile, she explains. Israel follows the

pattern of other developed countries: the higher the education level, the

greater the likelihood of migration. Holders of doctorates are more likely

to leave than people with high school or lower education.

Earlier studies show that holders of academic degrees are twice as likely to

migrate as high school graduates. Generally speaking, the migrants will

have a technological education and have a male-dominated occupation.

The prospect of a woman engaged in a male occupation migrating is twiceas high as that of a woman who is in a feminine or mixed occ upation,

Sabah adds.

The studies on which Sabah draws suggest that Jewish migrants have

cause to be optimistic. Researc h conducted in the United States, which is

the most popular target country for Jewish migrants, shows that Jews

integrate within a relatively short time and improve their socioec onomic

status. But dont rush to pack your bags just y et. Sabah emphasizes that in

any event, 20 percent of the emigrants return to Israel.

She continues: Those who leave do so because they can. The assumption

that underlies the theoretical models is that people make decisions

rationally and compare the possibilities that they have in another

country.

Its more difficult for Israelis to give up the perception that the country is

their home. Most people do not leave in order to migrate, says Prof.

Tamar Hermann, from the Open Universitys Department of Sociology ,

Political Science and Communication. Hermann, who has done

considerable research on the Israeli migration phenomenon, adds that

many leave because of a specific job or for studies, but in some cases

extend the time they intended to devote to that pursuit. It is not planned

migration but an ongoing development, which in the end comes down to

emigration, she says. Few people pack their lifes belongings in advance

with the aim of moving elsewhere permanently.

According to Hermann, emigration from Israel is still not perceived as asuccess story. Its true that there is less criticism of those who leave. No

one will speak of a fallout of cowards any longer, but most [leaving] lead a

middling life. They do not feel pride in their success and instead feel a

need to apologize.

The fact that Israelis tend not to declare their leaving as an act of


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emigration is related to their attachment to Israel, even after they have

left. Israelis abroad maintain a warm relationship with Israel, Hermann

notes, and quite a number return bec ause of their c hildren -- or, more

accurately, because of the change their children undergo. The children

become Americans, Canadians or Europeans, and the parents feel they

have lost their c ommon language with them. Israeliness is generally not

sustained in the second generation.

Lack of hope

None of this comes as a surprise to Sharon Eyny and Amit Noy Nevo. A

year and a half ago, they founded a company in New York to assist Israelis

who move to the city . The company, called Get it Done NY, helps new

arrivals find housing and a school for their c hildren -- in short, to

acclimatize. Nevo and her husband moved to New York in 1997. We

really wanted to try New York, she says. We were here for our

honeymoon, fell in love with the city and decided to give it a try. We didnt

plan on staying this long, she adds.

Eyny went to New York at a far younger age. Her parents left Israel when

she was eight. At 17 she decided to return to Israel, but after a few years

moved back to New York. We founded the company after we identified

the need for a service like ours, Nevo says. We were both involved even

before. We knew about people who were coming here and that the number

was increasing. We understood that many of them need help.

As a longtime New Yorker, Eyny says she discerns a change in the profile

of the Israelis coming to the city. In the past they were in the 18-30 age

bracket. T hey didnt have much and came to New York to try their luck.

These days there are a lot more families. That also has to do with the fact

that there are now more options for families. The feeling used to be that

New York is far away, but now people feel that it is much more accessible.

To hop aboard a plane and go to Israel is also no big deal anymore, and

people have more c ourage to go in the knowledge that they can always go

back to visit.

From conversations with families they have worked with, Nevo says the

main reason people move from Israel to New York is economic. These

are people who feel they can earn more here than in Israel, and that inIsrael they have run the gamut. She adds that another reason is higher

education: many people leave, because overseas they can develop

academically in a way that is not possible in Israel. In addition, many of

the families that leave think the educational level in Israel is not up to par.

Ran Harnevo, a high-tech entrepreneur, is much more blunt. I have a

relatively good excuse for not living in Israel, he says with a smile. We

established a start-up in Israel, and after we raised $5 million I went to

New York to develop the business side and get to know the market. That

was four and a half years ago. The company was sold to AOL in 2010, but

its still an Israeli-American company, with 70 employees in Israel.

Harnevo, 38, moved to the United States with his wife; they now have an

American-born daughter. In the period in which they have been living in

New York, the number of Israelis working in the Internet sphere has

grown apace. These days they are known as the Israeli mafia, Harnevo

laughs. There is talk in the city about why there are so many Israelis

here, he says. We feel the growing desire to move in the form of more

relocation requests. These days, when I think about going back to Israel,

the question that comes up is, What I could do there?

The Internet has become one of the big, attractive professions, he adds.

It is totally global. It cant be managed from Israel. We would not have

succeeded if we had tried to run the company [5min Media] from Israel.

There are other reasons, too. The feeling is that there is economic and

political distress in Israel. That the Israeli middle class -- of which I see

myself a part -- faces two stumbling blocks: one is the difficulty of beingunable to do well economically, due to an uncompetitive, cartel-driven

market; and the other is a lack of hope.

Politically, the discourse is one of despair. Its a fanatic, illiberal

discourse. An educated secular individual in his thirties, who is part of the

smart, successful I nternet industry in Israel, understands that this same


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route makes it possible for him to leave Israel.

The tendency by high-tech people to leave the country seems clear and

natural, but they are not the only ones who are finding work abroad with

comparative ease. Ev en though the fact that Europe and the United States

are reeling under the impact of the economic crisis would appear to make

immigration more difficult, in practice there are c ertain professions which

are in high demand abroad. They belong to what has been called the

creative class.

The term was coined by the American-born economist and social scientist

Richard Florida, as part of a theory he developed about urban renewal and

economic development in post-industrial cities. Ac cording to Florida,

cities that are able to attract members of the creative class will enjoy

economic prosperity.

Many theoreticians reject his approach, but mayors of many big cities

have warmly adopted it. The result is that the members of professions that

fit the creative category -- designers, architects, high-tech personnel and

others -- are considered desirable and find it easier to obtain work and

residence permits.

Tel Aviv is considered a city that the creative class is fond of. But, for

example, the architects who work for a salary in architectural firms will

find it difficult to pay the city s high rental fees. For Israelis, globalization -- which is nourishing the interest in the creative class -- has made the

perennial question about the difficulty of living outside Israel almost

anachronistic.

Harnevo hesitates for a moment when asked if it was hard for him to make

the decision to live far from his native land. I think there is something a

little childish about the Israeli narrative, he says. The narrative insists

that there is no place like Israel. Its a powerful narrative and is implanted

in you, but suddenly you discover that its not so. There are places like

Israel and the skies do not fall when you leave. T hose who go back do so

not because there is no place like I srael, but because its their home and it

really is hard to switch homes.

Point of no return

Conversations about emigration from Israel often come down to the issue

of the brain drain the country is experiencing. The number of European

university lecturers working in the 40 leading faculties in the United

States is between 0.5 percent and 4 percent. In other words, for every 100

lecturers who work in Germany, 2.9 work in the United States. But for

every 100 lecturers working in Israel, there are 25 working in the United

States. The speaker is the economist Prof. Dan Ben-David, who is the

executive director of the Taub Center and teaches in the Department of

Public Policy at Tel Av iv University.

Ben-David conducted a study of the brain-drain phenomenon five years

ago. He explains that although the brain drain to the United States is not

exclusively an Israeli phenomenon, there is nothing like it anywhere else

in the world in terms of its proportions. There are eight Israelis in the

Computer Sciences Department of Stanford, which is almost a

subdepartment, he says with a half-smile. He is concerned not only about

the future of the universities in Israel but about the countrys character

and image as a whole. I am apprehensive that we will reach a point of

demographic no-return here.

Demography refers not only births but also to those who remain here to

live, he explains. At present, it is still possible to shift the country onto a

sustainable track, but in another decade that will no longer be possible.

Today, half the children in Israel receive a lower-level education than is

the case in T hird World countries, and that number is only increasing.

Thats what the elections should be about.

Does the brain drain exist in fields other than computing? Acc ording to a

2008 paper, written by Profs. Omer Moav and Eric Gould for the

Jerusalem-based Shalem Center, the educated public those holding a

B.A. and above are more inclined to emigrate than those with a high

school education or lower. T he authors note that more than 2.6 percent of


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educated, married Jews in the 25-40 age group were categorized by the

Central Bureau of Statistics as emigrants in 2002, as compared with 1.1

percent among those with lower education.

Moav and Gould analyzed the data of the 1 995 population census

combined with an indication of the status of emigration in 2002. They add

that the percentage of educated young people leaving the country is

significantly higher than their share in the general population. On the basis

of their study, they conclude that Israel and Italy are the only two

developed countries in which the number of educated people emigrating

from the country exceeds the number of educated immigrants entering

the country. This is a migration pattern that is found in poor countries.

Another interesting finding by Moav and Gould concerns the occupations

of those who choose to leave. In first place are senior university faculty,

with a 6.5 percent emigration rate. They are followed by physicians, at 4.8

percent, and then engineers and scientists (not f rom universities), whose

emigration rate is slightly above 3 percent. The study found a correlation

between level of education and emigration, primarily among males; and

that holders of an M.A. (or its equivalent in the sciences) are more likely

to emigrate than holders of a B.A. Academics and physicians head the list.

In general, the data on emigration from Israel are extremely difficult to

analyze. Passport control does not ask each person where he is going, so it

is difficult to determine who has left and for how long. Researcherstherefore qualify their findings, and this is why we can talk confidently

about a trend of leav ing but less so about a phenomenon.

Poor everywhere

Sagi Balasha is the CEO of the I sraeli Leadership Council, whose mission,

according to its website, is to build an active and giving Israeli-American

community in order to strengthen the State of Israel, our next generation,

and to provide a bridge to the Jewish-American community. He, for one,

feels that fewer Israelis have been coming to the United States in the past

few years, because of the economic situation there as contrasted to Israel.

In fact, he says, the desire to move to America is the product of

mythmaking. In Israel we grew up with the perception that America is theheight of ambitions, the land of possibilities, in contrast to the self-

laceration in Israel. A whole generation was raised in that light. Israel is

characterized by frenetic activ ity and has become a start-up nation, and

the feeling is that America is sleeping.

Nevertheless, Balasha says, there are many who v iew the United States as

the next step in their career. He says he recently met a young Israeli who

chose to leav e a comfortable, well-paid career with good social conditions

and even tenure, for the United States. Its likely he will have to

compromise, so I asked him why he did it. He said he also wanted to try

America. That is an illusion, and if you probe it you find that with the

exception of a few Israelis who really did make it, the majority live at a

middling level and most of them did not triumph.

Balashas organization is trying to create an Israeli community and Israeli

culture for the Israelis in Los Angeles. One of its activ ities is to distribute

food to poor families from Israel. Every week we distribute dozens of

crates to I sraelis who dont have food to eat. Y ou have the whole gamut

here, from the poor to the upper class. The living standard is also very

similar to what you have in Israel.

There are 250,000 Israelis in the United States, Balasha says. Thats more

than the population of Netivot, Ofakim, Beit Shean and Nesher put

together. T he large number of people translates into large differences in

terms of success. Even though the statistics say that one in every five

emigrants return, in practice even longtime emigrants find it difficult to

admit -- even to themselves -- that they are not likely to go back.

Israel is home

Roy Azoulay, 34 , and his partner, Liat Reuveni, 38, have been living in

Oxford, England, for the past four years. They made the move so he could

obtain an MBA. Azoulay notes that even though the MBA studies take a


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year, their original plan was to stay for five y ears. We were always

curious about how it might be to liv e abroad, and we wanted to get a little

experience of the outside world, he says.

After obtaining his MBA, Azoulay started to work in a subsidiary of

Oxford University, a kind of technological hothouse that supports about

15 companies. Reuveni, a dental technician by profession, does not work.

She is raising their son, Y onatan, who is 18 months old and was born in

England, and their Israeli-born daughter, Mika, age 5. Its common here

for one of the spouses to take a break from the world of work and allow

the family to subsist less materialistically, in order to give the children the

optimal conditions until the start of school, A zoulay says. In Israel, that

is not considered a legitimate choice.

In addition to the legitimacy of being able to be with the children, Azoulay

also notes the sanity of the English working day, adding, Obviously, life

here is more comfortable in many ways. Nev ertheless, he insists that

from the family v iewpoint, their home is Israel and they do not intend to

stay in Oxford forever.

An impressive declaration, but a few weeks ago he received a job offer he

will find hard to refuse, and if he accepts it, the family will remain abroad

for two more y ears. The decision is being made with mixed feelings,

because we very much were waiting to return. We hesitated to leave,

because we loved the life in Israel and enjoyed ourselves. But this offer is aonce-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Azoulay ex plains, in an apologetic tone.

All the emigrants we interviewed for this article come from the middle

class -- the class which most economists maintain is the basis of a v iable

democracy with a healthy ec onomy. The middle class bears the tax

burden (its members dont have the smart accountants that the upper

decile can afford to hire) and also the burden of army reserve duty. When

the Israeli middle class took to the streets in the social-protest movement

of summer 2011, it discovered that the decision makers are indifferent to

its problems.

Still, though no significant change has occurred, it can be argued that the

protests brought about at least one change: the perception of an eroding

middle class is now axiomatic. Middle-class salaries have dropped by 7.7percent in the past decade. The possibility for further erosion among the

middle c lass remains high: sometimes all that separates social well-being

from dire poverty is a health or employment catastrophe.

No fewer than 15.5 perc ent of those who sought help from aid agencies in

Israel last year c ategorized themselves as former middle-class families,

attorney Eran Weintrob, executive director of Latet -- Israeli

Humanitarian Aid, told TheMarker in September 2012. The economic

ailments of Israeli society are not confined solely to the middle class. The

past few years have seen a dramatic growth in inequality here, with large

disparities forming. As a result of the concentration of wealth among a few

families, even those who are by definition part of the upper decile dont

always feel they have anywhere to progress to economically. If we add the

high cost of real estate, its not surprising that a generation has grown up

here feeling economically sty mied and believing that it can have a better

life elsewhere. T he fusion between economic insecurity and a sense of

hopelessness explains the desire to leave.

If we dont think our childrens lives will be better than ours, why stay?

Scratching an itch

Ruthie Meiri Newgrosh, 35, filmmaker, on why she swapped Israel for

England.

I am writing this on my iPhone. At the moment its my connection to the

outside world, because most of the time I am closely connected to a 5-

week-old baby girl. Ive been living in Manchester for the past two and a

half years, happily married to Alex , an English Jew who was born here.

About three and a half years ago, I started to feel an itch in my stomach


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25 The promised landBy ess007 12 Jan 2013 08:49PM

24 Israel is disgustingBy Jude 11 Jan 2013 11:31PM

23 Oh goodie, another Haaretz survey! The next oneill say 40% of Israelis ALREADY LEFT but no-one noticed...

By Nemesis 03 Jan 2013 00:27PM

No

By Carlos 05 Jan 2013 00:58PM

22 people are not after a "promised" land, they needa "promising" landBy fer it 03 Jan 2013 09:11AM

21 the t ruth is 90% consider leav ingBy v ic tor 02 Jan 2013 08:32AM

20 A disposable count ryBy Glenn J 28 Dec 2012 10:40AM

I was wondering the same t hing

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glennj

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19 So just how much does Israel m ean t o Israel?By Palestinian Brit 17 Dec 2012 00:12PM

18 MisleadingBy Ruth 16 Dec 2012 07:15PM

i am sure you will find the 40% m entioned

hav e 2nd passport u p to date an d openairline t icket out and when the first shots

fired at iran or

By lebonon fired w ill bid a fond farwell 16 Dec 2012 08:44PM

17 40 percent of Israelis are thinking of emigrating,admirably h igh number ofBy brk 16 Dec 2012 05:55PM

about the same number of returning

palestinian refugeeBy cosmic justice? 16 Dec 2012 06:35PM

16 Who will fina nce Israel when the t ax pay ers ha vefled.By Melissa 16 Dec 2012 05:08PM

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The US ta xpay ers as of course.

By HD 30 Dec 2012 05:34AM

15 Emigration & forgetfulnessBy The Teacher/Instruct 16 Dec 2012 02:05PM

14 a lot of hogwashBy former expat 16 Dec 2012 11:51AM

13 emigration (leaving home)By rosemerry 16 Dec 2012 10:39AM

Except for Canada, USA, Austra lia,

European nations and others that take

them in..

By HD 30 Dec 2012 05:39AM

a middle east without Israel

By Noa 05 Jan 2013 05:33AM

12 hard facts pleaseBy mara 15 Dec 2012 11:50AM

Precisely

By Itzik 01 Jan 2013 03:32PM

11 Economy a nd th e Occupat ionBy Sylvie 15 Dec 2012 10:37AM

10 This data is especially grav e in light of that Israelhas an exeptional imigrat ion industry not seenelsewere, exept in the USA or Canada.

By Kristian Lazar 15 Dec 2012 10:02AM

09 There is no future in settlements & colonization...By Dutch 15 Dec 2012 09:07AM

08 Bibi's brand of fear m ongering in order tocontinue grabbing Palestinian territ ory is enoughto make anyone leaveBy talknic 15 Dec 2012 09:04AM

07 LiebermanBy Walid 15 Dec 2012 08:33AM

Lieberman

By Lieberman 15 Dec 2012 03:37PM

No hope in sight. Netanyahu delusional

arrogance matches that of LieBermans.

By Matt 15 Dec 2012 05:31PM

06 Obviously they are workers and taxpay ers. 40%leave you will be left with 60% of which probably60% of them are moochersBy Reuben of NYC 15 Dec 2012 07:01AM

Reuben of ?

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05 The r oot cause of emigrat ionBy Itzik 15 Dec 2012 06:08AM

patronising nonsense from someone who

doesn't live here

By israeli 15 Dec 2012 08:48PM

How do you know?

By Rex 16 Dec 2012 07:55AM

Re: Root causes for emigrat ionBy Dutch 16 Dec 2012 08:57AM

why I know

By Israeli 16 Dec 2012 11:53PM

You a re ra th er selectiv e re what 's deserv ingof support

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Arab and Musli m sta tes are ra cist bydefinition

By Ahmad 17 Dec 2012 10:13AM

Dutch- I live in Canada and am a neighborof the US

By Arnold-Canada 11 Jan 2013 01:39AM

04 israel's emigrating population would not beelcome in most places which means Ameri camainly would be prone to infestation

By Chaim Dubi a Da 15 Dec 2012 04:34AM

israeli imigrations

By Mel 15 Dec 2012 07:14AM

To Chaim whatever

By maxinetz 16 Dec 2012 03:14PM

Because in t he US 4,500,000

Arabs/Musl ims and over 8,00 0,000 Jews

live t ogether.

By Melissa 16 Dec 2012 03:50PM

Given the number of Mistakes

By inbound39 16 Dec 2012 10:39PM

So, why do MOST of the world's Jews live inthe US?

By Melissa 17 Dec 2012 03:55AM

Living in th e USA "melting pot"


03 MigrationBy Vittorio Antonio 15 Dec 2012 04:29AM

Migration

By South - African 09 Jan 2013 03:33PM

02 Good for world peaceBy Ali Baba 15 Dec 2012 03:20AM

Wrong, VER Y ba d for world peace

By Ernst 15 Dec 2012 10:05AM

01 I have a simpler solution. Sign peace with thePalestinians, make nice to the Arabs, and join theeconomy of th e Middle East.

By Rammer 15 Dec 2012 02:57AM

100% correct

By n 15 Dec 2012 11:04A M

So let's sign peace with the Arabs, huh?

By AF 16 Dec 2012 10:27AM

The one that the ENTIRE Arab League

ratified. It offers permanent peace inexchange for the border at the Green LIn.

By Melissa 16 Dec 2012 03:52PM

Bless those who think prudently such asabove comment at ors;

By Kameel 16 Dec 2012 10:32PM

Clearly you don't understand the ArabLeague plan

By Raymond in DC 17 Dec 2012 08:03AM

Arab-Israeli peace agr eement s

By dkmeller 17 Dec 2012 10:27AM

Melissa and if i t doesn't work out?

By H 17 Dec 2012 11:36A M

Peace with the Arabs. Hearty ha r har har


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Bye, The Beloved Country - Why Almost 40 Percent of Israelis Are Thinking of Emigrating - Israel News _ Haaretz Daily Newspaper