The scenes of the arrival of Jewish refugees to the Israeli occupation state are one of the most prominent things that the Hebrew media is interested in highlighting and highlighting, as they appear on several occasions, most recently during the Russian-Ukrainian war, pictures and clips of new immigrants on plane stairs waving white and blue flags and victory signs. But what the occupying power deliberately ignores are the Jews who chose to leave the Jewish state after immigrating to it earlier, in a phenomenon known in Hebrew as "Yordim," which means to descend or descend.
For example, Israeli statistics revealed that two months after the start of the Ukrainian war, about 1800,5600 Russian Jews out of 13,68 who benefited from the Law of Return returned to Moscow with their Israeli passports. This means that one-third of the Russian Jews who arrived in Israel rushed to leave. Following last November's elections, which resulted in the inauguration of the most extreme government in Israel's history, Israelis applied for European citizenship escalated, with the highest rate of Israeli applications for French citizenship, with an increase of 10%. There was also an increase in the percentage of immigration applications for EU countries in general, with the authorities in Portugal recording a <>% increase in citizenship applications from Israelis, and the Polish and German authorities recording a <>% increase in applications during the same period.
Since the establishment of the occupation state at the end of the forties, reverse immigration has been a monitored phenomenon, as 10% of Jewish immigrants left between 1948 and 1950, prompting the occupation government to enact strict restrictions by imposing an exit visa application that was often denied to Israeli applicants. Despite these restrictions, one hundred thousand immigrants left by the tenth anniversary of the founding of the occupation state in 1958, and by 1967 more than 180,<> Israelis had emigrated, despite the continued obstacles placed in the way of those who want to emigrate by the occupation government.
In this video from Meydan, we shed light on the phenomenon of reverse immigration of Jews from Israel, and analyze its changing causes and motives. In the past decades, deteriorating security conditions have been a major cause, especially during the 1987 and 2000 uprisings, which pushed some former Soviet immigrants to leave Israel for other countries. Subsequently, the deteriorating economic situation, inequality and disillusionment over the stalled settlement with the Palestinians contributed to the escalation of these migrations.
The experience of the past years and decades has shown many immigrants that the occupied territories are not the prosperous dream homeland they were promised, so Israel is no longer the immigration country it was in the first five decades of its history. The Israeli government, which has announced its intention to work to change the passport law in order to make it more difficult to obtain an Israeli passport, and thus discourage new immigrants from obtaining it quickly and then leaving the country, appears to be causing increased alienation for migrants and thus exacerbate the phenomenon of reverse migration in the coming years.