Quarter of Jews Want to Leave Israel After Gaza  

A poll revealed, Saturday, about a quarter of Israelis have been thinking about leaving the country and settling abroad in the past year, due to the “current political and security situation,” the Jewish media reported.

The latest poll by the Israeli official Kan channel, showed 23 percent of Israeli respondants “thought about leaving the country in the past year, starting from October 2023 till October 2024), due to the current political and security situation.”

However the poll also showed that 67 percent of Israelis said they “did not think about leaving the country,” but the rest refused to answer the question.

Revealing is the fact that 14 percent of those who support the government coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have thought about leaving, compared to 36 percent of the opposition parties’ supporters.

Thus the poll showed “secularists are more inclined to leave, compared to Haredi (religious) Jews.”

The Kan channel’s survey showed however, that negative migration – that is Israelis leaving the country – was evident even before 7 October with the numbers of people exiting exceeding the number of new immigrants coming to Israel.

Kan stated this trend of negative migration seems to be continuing for 2024 which could worsen.

Last September, official Israeli data by the Central Bureau of Statistics showed a significant increase in this phenomenon  with more than 40,000 leaving in the first seven months of 2024.

In 2023, about 55,300 citizens immigrated from Israel, compared to 38,000 who immigrated in 2022, according to the same source as reported by the Anadolu news agency.

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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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