Fewer Come to Israel, And Many Are Leaving
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34757-2004Apr22?language=printer
Conflict, Economic Woes Contribute to Decline in Immigration
By John Ward Anderson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, April 23, 2004; Page A17
JERUSALEM -- Anton Nosik was a 24-year-old physician in Moscow making
$8 a month when the Soviet Union began to collapse in 1990. Suddenly
free to travel abroad, he packed his bags and went off to see the
world, eventually settling in Israel -- one of the more than 800,000
Soviet Jews who moved here in the 1990s after decades of religious
persecution under communism.
Today, Nosik is back in Moscow, and so are thousands of other Russian
Jews who immigrated to Israel, some of them soured by the Jewish
state's anemic economy, limited job opportunities and dangerous
security environment. At the same time, statistics show that
immigration to Israel last year dropped to a 15-year low, which
Israeli officials blame not only on the economic downturn and
continuing violence, but also on the smaller reservoir of Jews in the
former Soviet republics to draw from and a decrease in the flight from
persecution by Jews around the world.
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