Times of Israel – Oct 20, 2025
More than 125,000 Israeli citizens moved abroad between early 2022 and mid-2024, the country’s largest-ever loss of human capital in such a short period, according to a report presented on Monday to the Knesset’s Immigration and Absorption Committee.
The report, compiled by the Knesset Research and Information Center, said that Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza may have been a factor causing the number of Israelis leaving the country permanently to skyrocket during those years.
Other factors mentioned in a previous report in February, including the political unrest that culminated in mass protests against the government’s judicial overhaul plan in 2023 and the ripple effects of the Russian-Ukrainian war, were not explicitly mentioned.
The trend is believed to have continued through 2025, as the war in Gaza stretched on.
“This is not a wave of emigration, it’s a tsunami of Israelis choosing to leave the country,” said committee chairman MK Gilad Kariv. He noted that Israel’s government does not currently have a plan to address the problem of Israelis leaving, and said his committee would work to tackle the issue in the future.
Israel’s net migration balance of citizens — the number of citizens leaving without intending to come back, minus the number of long-term returnees — fell by 125,200 people between the beginning of 2022 and August 2024, the report found.
Some 59,400 Israelis left the country in 2022, and an all-time high 82,800 left in 2023, according to the report. In 2024, nearly 50,000 people left between January and August, the report said.
For perspective, the average number of long-term emigrants between 2009 and 2021 was approximately 40,500 per year, the report said.
Meanwhile, 29,600 Israelis living abroad returned to Israel in 2022, 24,200 returned in 2023, and 12,100 returned in the first eight months of 2024, the report said.
While in previous decades, most of the Israelis who left the country were seeking things like upward mobility, success and education, now, the main factor driving people away is the political and security situation, according to research by Lilach Lev Ari, a professor of sociology at Oranim College.
The data, compiled by Dr. Ayala Eliyahu, used the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) definition of emigrants as those leaving Israel for at least 275 days abroad within a year of departure, and returning Israelis as those who return for at least 275 days in a year after such a stay overseas.
The National Insurance Institute can begin to terminate one’s residency in Israel after five years of residence abroad, although citizens can take the initiative to cancel their residency themselves, attorney Danny Zaken of the NII noted. Such requests have more than tripled from an average of 2,500 before 2021 to 8,400 in 2024, he noted.
The report’s calculation of a negative migration of 125,200 did not include new immigrants. Israel received more than 74,000 new citizens in 2022, 46,000 in 2023, and about 24,000 in the first eight months of 2024, according to CBS figures.
In 2025, immigration from Western countries rose from the past year, driven in large part by rising antisemitism abroad and a resurgence in excitement for the Zionist cause since the Hamas invasion of October 7, 2023, aliyah advocates have noted. However, immigration levels from the US, France, UK, Canada and other countries are still low compared to a decade ago.
The Immigration and Absorption Ministry does not have a plan to stem the tide of emigration, noted the ministry’s director of aliyah, Eric Michaelson.
“We are not a ministry for preventing emigration, and we do not have a mandate to stop the process of emigration from the country,” Michaelson told the committee. “[Only] immigrants and returning residents are under the care of the Immigration and Absorption Ministry, and we work to keep them in the country for a long time.”
Immigration and Absorption Minister Ofir Sofer has led the ministry to initiate a number of improvements to the immigration process in the past year, and the ministry will be hosting a conference on strengthening immigration as a vehicle of Israel’s economic growth on Wednesday in Tel Aviv.
Kariv called on the Immigration and Absorption Ministry to formulate a strategic plan to encourage Israeli citizens abroad to return, and to implement a specific mechanism to monitor academic staff who leave Israel and go to work at universities abroad, a phenomenon often referred to as brain drain.

A peaceful protest has taken place at a hotel which houses asylum seekers for the second night in a row after disorder broke out earlier in the week.
People gathered at Citywest Hotel in Saggart on Friday where candles were lit and children held signs saying “I want to be safe”.
The disorder broke out after a sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl in the vicinity of the hotel on Monday.
A 26-year-old man, who cannot be named because of legal restrictions that apply to all sexual assault cases in Ireland, appeared in court on Tuesday charged over the alleged incident.
Locals said we have had enough kids cannot walk to school without being propositioned by these migrants
Protests have been held at the Citywest Hotel for the past four nights, with the disorder breaking out on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Protesters have carried Irish flags, chanted anti-immigration slogans and thrown missiles.
The Irish police force, An Garda Siochana, had a public order unit, a mounted unit, a dog unit, and a water canon at the scene, as well as a police helicopter in response to the incidents.
The violent clashes led to four gardai being injured, more than 30 arrests, vandalism and arson in the area. paint daubings saying ” migrants go home” and ” leave the kids alone”
were seen.
Police say they are in sympathy with the demonstrators but have a job to do
Government To Begin Arresting Citizens Who Post ‘Hateful Content’ on Social Media
October 23, 2025 News, World
The hard left UK government has announced plans to begin arresting citizens who post material on social media deemed “offensive” by the government.
Mention of the jews palestinian genocide, or the governments migrant dumping
could get you arrested
well here goes dirty jews are mass murdererd dirty jews are mass murderers
here come try to arrest me
Jews fleeing the mess that they have made and seeking new hosts are like cancer cells metastasizing throughout the rest of the body.
Jewish piffle whitewashes their actions and movements and we need to draw our own conclusions about these
“…human capital…” !!!! That’s not what I would call a jew !
This is the evil offspring of the jews leaving to take over other countries. They aren’t running away from anything. They’re running to your backyard to rape you and your country and your children.
They’re playing down the numbers again big time. Months ago Col. Larry Wilkerson who has contacts in the security agencies was quoting the figure 1.5 million, a 20:1 difference. And it won’t be the poor and disadvantaged leaving Israel, it will be the money and the privileged. Maybe the only Jews left living there will be the real descendants of the bible, the ones who have always lived there, the second-class Jews who swept the streets and cleaned the homes of the Ashkenazi; the ones who were never in charge and did not launch modern Israel’s wars of destruction.
So, where are they settling instead? The ZOG land-clearances in the Ukraine for a Talmud-ordained homeland for Ashkenazi’s?
jews stay in palestine ! we dont want you anywhere else !
GO TO HELL BY IRAN ORESHNIK !
As I’ve said, don’t come down to New Zealand we’re full and got enough fucking Indian scum here now and don’t need the worst of the worst scum down Godzone. Tod dem Juden.
UKIP’s Anti-Immigrant Protest: Tenconi Leads March Through London
On October 25th, UKIP leader Nick Tenconi and a large group of supporters marched from London Oratory to Marble Arch, protesting against jewish genocide and demanding the mass deportation of migrants, amidst a heavy police presence.
Britain over whelmed by ‘relentless surge of Jew hatred’
Story by David Williamson
is it any wonder seeing what jews are doing ?
Britain must stand up to migrant hordes imported in by Jew Kier Starmer,
for the sake of the whole nation, according to a former foreign minister who is appalled at the murderous extremism which has taken over the whole middle east
as now Turkey prepares for an attack.
Ivan Lewis, another jew who lives a short distance from the Manchester synagogue attacked this month, described how palestinians deserved being bombed and starved
Britain is broken and our politicians cannot get anything right’
Opinion by GB News Reporter • 13h When I was younger, I remember useless lying shitbag politicians like Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.
People with hidden conviction, like Ted Heath and Neil Kinnock. They were passionate in the lies they told,
However, this latest batch, and by that I mean those who didn’t get what they wanted since Brexit, have become, in my view, more self-interested and anti-British
They don’t seem bothered about serving the will of the people or upholding democracy, but more about looking good on the global stage and furthering their own financial interests by taking israeli cash
Their asses are not emigrating, nor leaving their country. They are simply going on another invasion vacation, off to parasite some other nation. Their exodus and emigrating, and fleeing are fake and weve seen this in the past episodes.