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	Fewer Come to Israel
		Israel is a country built on immigration whose leaders see the continuing influx of Jews as vital to its survival.
		"Israel and the people in Israel have tried their best, but it is impossible to please a million immigrants when there is a failing economy in Israel and an ongoing intifada," Berkowitz said.
		Israeli immigration experts said there were no precise studies to explain why Jews move to Israel and why they move away, but referred to what they called push-pull factors that repel people from some countries and pull them to others.
	www.boykotisrael.dk /fewer_come_to_israel.htm (1466 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Immigration to Israel From North America Hits 22-Year High
		Saphir, who arrived in Israel on a special flight chartered to bring new immigrants from North America, was able to fulfill her dream of immigrating to Israel this week due to help from the Nefesh b'Nefesh (NBN) organization.
		Following massive immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s -- which topped one million -- immigration to Israel had been on the decline since the beginning of the intifadah in October 2000.
		Israel's system for absorbing immigrants is quite extensive and often tailored to the needs of a specific population, such as immigrants from Ethiopia who needed help not only to adjust to Israel, but also to modern, Western culture.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1370878.html (1042 words)

	N.America, France set to lead immigration to Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		LOD, Israel (Reuters) - Immigration to Israel is expected to post a three-year high in 2006, boosted by a jump in those moving to the Jewish state from North America and France, Israel's agency for immigration said on Thursday.
		Immigration from France is also expected to reach 3,500 people in 2006, the highest level since 1971, the agency said.
		Israel's government places great significance on immigration amid concerns that without an influx of foreign Jews the country's Arab minority, which has a far higher birth rate, could eventually outnumber the Jewish population.
	www.topix.net /content/reuters/2801571143249069923404956082782491154585 (686 words)

	Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jewry
		The authorities at the Ministry of Interior in Israel are said to be excruciatingly slow in authorizing the Israeli Consul in Gonder to interview applicants for aliyah.
		Past experience has clearly shown that immigration from Ethiopia and the resulting family re-unifications have not caused a sudden increase in the number of people joining Beta Israel community circles in Ethiopia, which are well-known and documented in the census.
		All of those who have immigrated to Israel in recent years belong to the community framework that is reflected in the census.
	www.studentstruggle.org /present.html (9477 words)

	Soviet Jewish immigration
		The mass influx of Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel was made possible by the relaxation of emigration restrictions in the Soviet Union and the introduction of immigration quotas in the USA, the country where most Soviet Jews permitted to emigrate during the 1980s had preferred to settle.
		The aim of this paper is to examine the issue of Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel in the context of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
		It is not the large-scale immigration per se which has given rise to the current controversy; rather, the mass influx of immigrants to Israel has exacerbated a situation that has been controversial ever since Israel embarked on the policy of settling its citizens in the occupied territories.
	www.jmcc.org /research/special/soviet.html (716 words)

	Immigration: The Early Years -- Israel Record
		INSPIRED BY ZIONIST IDEOLOGY and the persecution of Jews in Eastern Europe, groups of Jews began immigrating to Palestine in the late 19th century.
		By 1936, the Jewish population of Palestine was close to 400,000.
		In her memoirs she recalled her inner struggles in Russia and what motivated her to immigrate to Palestine during the Second Aliyah.
	www.adl.org /israel/record/immigration-to-48.asp (478 words)

	Immigration by Jews hits 15-year low - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		JERUSALEM — Immigration to Israel, suffering from a weak economy and continuing violence, receded dramatically in the past year and cut the Jewish state's annual population growth to its lowest since 1990.
		Israel's population rose by 116,000 people, or 1.7 percent, in the past year — its lowest growth rate since 1990.
		In the 1990s, immigration ranged from 70,000 to 200,000 a year, as about 1 million Jews from the former Soviet Union flocked to Israel to seek a better way of life.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20031231-090830-7906r.htm (453 words)

	Immigration to Israel drops in 2004 - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By Daphna Berman, Haaretz Correspondent and AP Immigration to Israel fell by more than nine percent in 2004, led by a sharp drop in arrivals from the former Soviet Union, officials said Sunday.
		Immigration has always been an important goal for Israel, which was established in 1948 as a home for the Jewish people.
		Immigration to Israel from North America will increase by 30 percent in the coming year as part of the Jewish Agency's new focus on immigration by choice, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, Sallai Meridor, predicted at the organization's annual press conference in Jerusalem on Sunday.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=536749&contrassID=1&subContrassID=9&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y (802 words)

	Jewish Immigration to Israel Falls Sharply -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jerusalem, June 23--(AP) Immigration to Israel has fallen sharply so far this year, and officials are considering what to do to reverse the trend, Israel's minister of immigrant absorption said Monday.
		The minister, Tzipi Livni, admitted that immigration to Israel is in a "tailspin." She said her ministry needed to examine the attitudes of potential immigrants and find ways to make Israel more attractive to them.
		Jewish immigration to Israel is the cornerstone of Zionism, the Jewish national movement.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/128/story_12868_1.html (616 words)

	09/26/02 - Iraq, Israel, Invasion, Immigration — And IQ
		Morever, one big reason the media are so uncaring about immigration's economic impact on their fellow Americans is that American journalists don't have to compete against immigrants, except for the occasional arrival from the Anglosphere.
		Israel is almost as much the regional superpower of the Mideast as the U.S. is of the Americas.
		Israel's Left hoped to unite Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip into one happy-clappy multiculturalist polity.
	www.vdare.com /sailer/podhoretz.htm (1071 words)

	Israel: Real Estate and Immigration, IRED
		The last big wave of immigration, from the former Soviet Union some 10-15 years ago, was example of such trend of "distressed immigrants", for quite long time denied even dreaming about visiting their relatives in Israel.
		In general, the Jews from the rich countries, for whom the immigration could have been a matter of choice, not of life-or-death dilemma, didn't respond in mass to the appeal to move to Israel.
		Thus the immigration to and emigration from Israel, which play role on the real estate market, appear to be result not only of the Israel domestic policy, both economic and political, but also of the situation in many different countries, which don't follow one pattern.
	www.ired.com /news/mkt/israel-immig.htm (1063 words)

	Immigration to Israel lowest in 13 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Immigration to Israel in 2002 was the lowest in 13 years, the Central Bureau of Statistics said Thursday.
		Immigration officials trying to explain the drop said the potential pool of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union is dwindling, though security concerns also appear to be keeping some people from settling in Israel.
		The number of French Jews arriving in Israel doubled from the year before, in part a result of what is perceived as rising anti-Semitism in France, said Yehuda Weinraub, a spokesman for the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency that helps settle immigrants.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/837353/posts (266 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mass media experts in Israel attributed such continuous decline to the deteriorating security situation in Israel since the outbreak of the Intifada in September 2000 and the aggravating economic stagnation.
		It is worth noting that 34.831 Jews have immigrated to Israel in 2002, compared to 44.000 in 2001 and 60.000 in 2000.
		Israel has retreated to be ranked 40 worldwide regarding the average individual national income.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2003-12/25/article05.shtml (607 words)

	Immigration since the 1930s- Israel Record
		In 1973, Israel's Chief Rabbinate affirmed the Jewishness of Ethiopian Jews, known as Beta Israel "House of Israel.
		A famine in 1984 caused a mass exodus of Ethiopian Jews to the Sudanese border.
		Jews from the USSR began arriving in Israel in 1968.
	www.adl.org /Israel/Record/immigration_since_30.asp (554 words)

	Aliyah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The number of Jews returning to the Land of Israel from the Jewish diaspora rose significantly between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries, mainly due to a general decline in the status of Jews across Europe and an increase in religious persecution.
		In spite of immigration quotas established by the British administration, the population of Jews reached 90,000 by the end of this period.
		Immigration was done mainly by sea, and to a lesser extent overland through Iraq and Syria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aliyah (2652 words)

	History - Immigration to Israel
		The first information about Jews immigrating to the Holy Land from Central Asia dates to the beginning of the 19th century, but large groups of Bukharan Jews who immigrated to and settled in Israel are known only from the 1880s.
		The number of members of the community who settled in Erez Israel during these years is not known, but it may be assumed that it was no less than 4,000 souls.
		Henceforth followed the period of almost complete severance of Bukharan Jewry from Erez Israel, and only in 1972, with the beginning of mass immigration from the U.S.S.R., did they renew the tradition of immigration to the Holy Land—this time to the State of Israel.
	www.bjewsusa.com /HI_immigration_israel.htm (302 words)

	(Jewish) Immigration to Israel drops 9.5% (but up from France and North America) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Immigration to Israel dropped 9.5 percent in 2004, the Jewish Agency announced at a press conference on Wednesday.
		The main reason for the drop was a decrease in immigration from former Soviet Union (FSU) countries, from 12,000 in 2003 to some 10,000 in 2004.
		The reports said the move came in response to the fact that more FSU Jews were immigrating to Germany rather than Israel, and that they imposed a heavy economic burden on the Jewish community, since many are dependent on welfare.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1337314/posts (1079 words)

	Practical Advice for Immigration to Israel Who Immigrate to Israel. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When filling out the questionnaires about your faith or belief, you should know that the authorities in Israel consider "Christians" (such as Arabs, Druses, Russian, Ukrainian and other nations) to not be Jewish.
		Know firmly that the State of Israel gives to you enough for life in the first year.
		Israel is a place where you will find an assembly of the east and west, north and south.
	exodus.tikva-israel.com /2eng.html (606 words)

	The State of Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is found in its Declaration of Independence of May 14, 1948, stating: "[t]he state of Israel is open to Jewish immigration and the Ingathering of Exiles (5)." After Israel officially established statehood, the Law of Return was enacted, granting every Jew the right to immigrate to Israel (5).
		Also Jews looked upon immigration to Israel as the ultimate goal of world Jewry and as a token of pride in Judaism and Jewish culture.
		The Knesset, or legislative body of Israel, has amended the Law of Return to define a Jew: "[f]or purpose of this law, 'a Jew' means a person born to a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism and who is not a member of another religion."
	www.georgetown.edu /users/lg56/state_of_israel.htm (255 words)

	Immigration To Israel Lowest Since Late 1980s
		Overall immigration to Israel has fallen to its lowest levels since the late 1980s, Jewish Agency officials have told the Post, and the growing "loss" to Germany of Jews from the FSU is at the heart of the decline.
		By comparison, immigration to Germany of Jews and their eligible relatives from the former Soviet Union has risen to 20,000 people.
		Meanwhile, short programs like birthright israel and the Israel Experience will have brought a record 30,000 youngsters to Israel by the end of this year.
	www.rense.com /general60/eiim.htm (308 words)

	Immigration to Israel Drops as More Russian Jews Prefer Germany - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An 18 percent drop in immigration from the former Soviet Union fueled the decline, the agency said.
		Israel has pressed Germany to cancel its absorption benefits to help encourage the remaining 800,000 Jews in former Soviet lands to move to Israel, he said.
		Despite the overall slowdown last year, immigration increased from North America by 11 percent, western Europe by 13 percent, and Ethiopia by 22 percent, the agency said.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/02/07/immirgationdown.shtml (624 words)

	North America, France set to lead immigration to Israel - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Immigration to Israel is expected to post a three-year high in 2006, boosted by a jump in those arriving from North America and France, Israel's agency for immigration said on Thursday.
		Israel's government places great significance on immigration amid concerns that without an influx of foreign Jews the country's Arab minority, which has a far higher birth rate, could evenutally outnumber the Jewish population.
		Israel is in for a sea of change
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=735610 (687 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In fact, immigration to Israel, known as aliyah, is on the rise.
		On August 10th, as Katyushas fell on communities across northern Israel and the battle raged in southern Lebanon, 242 American Jews disembarked at Ben Gurion International airport, overjoyed to be on Israeli soil.
		On the heels of the security coup that prevented the terrorists from carrying out their mission, politicians and journalists were busy linking the planned bombings with the fighting between the Israeli Defense Forces and the Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
	www.cbn.com /cbnnews/world/israel/060815d.aspx (547 words)

	Kiryat Malachi-Ashkelon Coast - UJC Western Region Partnership 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At first, when people started to think of immigrating to Israel, only the old people were sent in order to give an example to the others and to attract the youngsters to immigrate.
		On his way to Israel, he started to feel sorry that he had left my mother - his true love - back in Morocco, so he decided to jump from the ship, and swim back to the first seaport station which was in Marseilles, France.
		The decision to immigrate to Israel was very difficult for my parents because despite the bad situation, my parents loved Morocco.
	www.partner.org.il /malachi/otzmabook/3e.html (708 words)

	Immigration to Israel from Arab lands biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Of the nearly 900,000 Jewish refugees, approximately 600,000 were absorbed by Israel.
		Today, almost half of Israel's Jewish citizens are the original refugees and their descendants.
		According to their website, it was founded "in Paris by several leaders of immigrants' associations and communities of Jews from Arab countries living in Israel and the Diaspora.
	www.biography.ms /Immigration_to_Israel_from_Arab_lands.html (924 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled Buddhist spiritual leader, will visit Israel for one week in the middle of February to take part in the events marking the 100th anniversary of late Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's immigration to Israel.
		According to Braverman, the idea to bring the Dalai Lama to Israel was raised in light of the fact that Ben-Gurion himself had great respect for Buddhism.
		After long discussions, negotiations and arrangements, the parties agreed that the Dalai Lama would arrive at Ben-Gurion University and would be the first person to receive the special commendation for the event marking the 100th anniversary of Ben-Gurion's immigration to Israel.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3200403,00.html (330 words)

	AZM \| aliyah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Zionist Congress determines that immigration to Israel represents one of the central foundations of the Zionist vision, and that therefore it is necessary to act so as to increase the number of Jewish immigrants to Israel.
		At a time when the Jewish settlement is fighting its enemies from within and from without, every Jew who immigrates to Israel represents a major reinforcement of the Zionist establishment in the land of Israel.
		Aliyah is the key to ensuring the Jewish character of the State of Israel and it is a vital prerequisite for strengthening its foundations.
	www.azm.org /aliyah.shtml (942 words)

	Jewish Immigration to Israel falls sharply (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Occupied Jerusalem - Immigration to the apartheid Israeli regime Israel has fallen sharply so far this year, and officials are considering what to do to reverse the trend, a Zionist minister said Tuesday.
		The minister, Tzipi Livni, admitted that immigration to apartheid Jewish state is in a "tailspin." She said her ministry needed to examine the attitudes of potential immigrants and find ways to make the apartheid state more attractive
		The main factor depressing immigration figures is nearly three years of Palestinian uprising against Israel's occupation of the Palestinian homeland.
	www.palestine-info.co.uk /am/publish/article_1370.shtml (276 words)

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