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Emigration from Israel exceeds immigration, report
Apr 20, 2007, 8:47 GMT
Tel Aviv - In Israel, the number of emigrants exceeded the number of immigrants for the first time in 20 years, the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot reported Friday.
Many emigrants were recent arrivals who wanted to leave Israel again, the report said. In 2007, 14,400 immigrants are expected in Israel while 20,000 people are expected to leave the country, according to the report based on figures for the first months of 2007.
The last time emigration exceeded immigration was in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War and in 1983 and 1984 when inflation was high.
Meanwhile the Maariv newspaper reported that approximately a quarter of the Israeli population was considering emigration.
Almost half of the country's young people were thinking of leaving the country, the report said. Their reasons included dissatisfaction with the government, the education system, a lack of confidence in the political ruling class and concern over the security situation.
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May be Jews started reading the Bible and/or Quraan, both predict that by the end of/ or later times jews will be brought to Palestine and then killed.
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SOHRABApr 20th, 2007 - 09:09:03
Only the clever ones leave, the fanatic Zionist remain, or the poor immigrants from Russia that have knowhere else to go. What a 'supposed' country is this? It encourages women and children from poor backgrounds to come and live in a War Zone, someone elses country, someone elses Home.
There is always a need for a part of Palastine to have strong connections with the Jewish community, I never refute that, but what that country has done and the crimes commited against humanity make me believe that the current regime in Israel should be 'wiped off the face of time', I'm sure someone else said that? No, Murdock told us he wants to wipe the country off the map, lol, if you cant see that kind of propoganda, what do you see?
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