Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Israel: One third of Israelis would leave the country if they could

"I can't explain it, but in Israel there's a feeling… I wouldn't say that there's no future, but that there's pressure, severe pressure all the time, wherever it comes from - rockets, taxes, the atmosphere in the streets, the overdraft at the bank. One day I just said to myself that I'd like something else."

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: Globes Israel
By Globes correspondent | September 7, 2014

30% of respondents to a Channel 2 survey said they would emigrate if an opportunity arose.

In the past two weeks, since the end of Operation Protective Edge, leaving Israel has again become a main topic of discussion. Channel 2's Ulpan Shishi program commissioned a special survey to find out how many people are really considering emigration.

30%, almost one third, of the respondents said that they would seriously considering leaving Israel if an opportunity to do so arose. 56% said that they would not leave even if the opportunity presented itself.

As for the stigma that in the past attached to those who chose to leave the country, only 36% of respondents in the current survey said they viewed emigrants negatively. The rest said they viewed emigration positively, or that they were indifferent to other people's decisions to leave Israel.

"I came to the conclusion that I simply couldn't take it any more," explained Elad, who moved to Munich. "I can't explain it, but in Israel there's a feeling… I wouldn't say that there's no future, but that there's pressure, severe pressure all the time, wherever it comes from - rockets, taxes, the atmosphere in the streets, the overdraft at the bank. One day I just said to myself that I'd like something else." [ more ... ]


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  1. Muhaammad ZafrullahSeptember 9, 2014 at 5:34 AM

    Ordinarily, given better conditions elsewhere, the Israelis would do what Jacob (pbuh) did, that is leave and never look back. But with the belligerent rhetoric coming from the Arabs there is an atmosphere of threat and that keeps quite a few of them in Israel.
    So perhaps, and I have said this before, if Israel's neighbors set aside the war-like stance, Israel won't be too big a problem.

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