Half a Million Jews Left Israel Since 7 October

Since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza on 7 October, 2023, nearly half a million Israelis left the country according to data from the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority.

Israel’s Zman magazine reported that 470,000 Israelis have emigrated from Israel, and it remains uncertain if they will ever return to the Jewish country in the meduim term and/orin the future.

The figures are alarming. One in four Israelis is looking for a way to leave the country pointes out the Jewish People Policy Institute

As well, statistics show there has been a significant decline in the number of Jewish immigrants to Israel beginning early October, and dropping by about 50 percent compared to the beginning of 2023.

This low trand is continuing. At the end of last June the Population and Immigration Authority estimated that 370,000 people left Israel in the previous two months. They stood at 230,309 last October and 139,839 in November.

Before the Gaza war outbreak, approximately 600,000 Israelis traveled abroad for vacation. The figures now show that Israelis are going abroad and not coming back.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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