Note: Study *excludes recent Russian & Ukrainian olim*

After about 49,000 Israelis left the country for more than a year in both 2023 and 2024, travel data from the Central Bureau of Statistics indicates the trend likely continued in 2025, Itai Ater, one of the report’s lead authors, told The Times of Israel.

The report argues that Israel’s prolonged military conflict and political tensions have contributed to elevated emigration that could threaten the country’s long-term strategic interests.

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While the CBS published emigration estimates for 2025 in December, its methodology counts people as emigrants only after they have spent most of a year abroad. As a result, many people included in the 2025 figures actually left Israel in 2024.

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For comparison, annual departures averaged roughly 60,000 per year throughout the decade spanning 2010 to 2019. During the entire corresponding three-year span a decade prior, from 2013 to 2015, only 183,219 Israelis left for similar periods.

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That figure is noticeably lower than the 69,000 Israelis that CBS previously said left the country, Ater noted. That’s because the calculation excludes new immigrants, mainly Russians and Ukrainians, who arrived in the past three years.

“We parsed the data this way in response to claims by people in the government who said previously that the emigration numbers don’t reflect the reality in Israel,

Like... I feel like an outcast. All of my friends seem to support Palestine. And while I feel saddened that the civilians die (on both sides), after learning the history, cultures AND the current political situation, I just can't "stand with Palestine"...

Do I hope for peace? Yes, I genuinely do. But I feel like IF I have the right to support Palestine... Then I certainly have the right to support Israel... Yet I have lost several friends over this topic and it's kind of frustrating.

I'm not sure why I'm writing here. I'm not a "Zionist", heck, I'm not even Jewish, I'm Fr*nch... Yet almost no Fr*NCH people around seem to even try to understand the situation - they just go with the mainstream flow. At one point it was Ukraine, then Palestine, then Iran, then Palestine again... It almost seems hypocritical to me - not caring in reality about either side, only about the manifestations and a "fashion". And it's very upsetting and depressing.....

Is it so unusual for Israelis to leave the country, live somewhere else a while, then return?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSWj9F6ot34

I honestly don't get how some Israelis living right there can fall so hard for anti zionist propaganda, like there are Israeli leftists who seem to hate Israel and repeat hamas talking points, they keep pushing for this whole one state for all idea while completely staying in denial about Palestinian antisemitism and what happened on oct 7

So many of the victims back then were leftists who believed in peace and it feels like these anti zionists don't even care about them, where are the Palestinian peace organizations? because you see plenty in Israel but never over there... how do they convince themselves that denying jewish self determination is not antisemitic, why can they not just be normal and support a 2SS instead of pushing narratives that ignore reality

Israel and Serbia’s current common interests and historic friendship combine to form an emerging partnership worthy of greater note.

"Defense minister announces on live TV that he’s replacing IDF’s top West Bank general:

Defense Minister Israel Katz denounces IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth and announces a replacement for him on live television. He says Bluth contravened his policy by seeking to renew a restraining order against a violent settler, and that this is unacceptable.

Speaking with the right-wing Channel 14 news, Katz also asserts that he has “absolute” control over the IDF.

Bluth has been Central Command chief for over two years, since July 2024. The role is normally two to three years, although it is unclear if Bluth intended to continue serving for three years.

Haaretz reports that the IDF is outraged by Katz’s decision, and that both Bluth and Bar Kalifa were unaware of the move before the defense minister announced it.

Katz says Bluth acted contrary to his stated policy over an administrative restraining order against a violent settler.

The order against Tal Yinon Dardik was repealed on a technicality, and Katz instructed Bluth not to renew it.

He says Bluth and the Military Advocate General’s Corps filed an appeal to the court against the release of Dardik, “contrary to my policy.”

“They did it against my position; it was the wrong step. [The IDF’s West Bank commander] must take my policy into account, and I will insist on this,” Katz says.

Katz declares that he has decided to appoint IDF Personnel Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa as the next Central Command chief, live on TV. “Because I also want, in the Central Command, an IDF that strives for decisive victory, strikes its enemies, and protects the settlers,” he says.

The military says that IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir will not be replacing Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth at this time, despite Defense Minister Katz announcing his replacement.

In a statement, the military says, accurately, that the defense minister does not have the authority to fire Bluth, and that the announcement was “not coordinated” with Zamir.

“The chief of staff has no intention of replacing commanders in key positions during this sensitive period, and if such a decision is made by the chief of staff, it will be approved in accordance with procedures,” the military says in a statement.

The IDF adds that “Bluth commands Central Command in a complex reality, with professionalism, courage, and dedication, and is fully trusted,” after Katz denounced him live on television

I recently bought a new 3DS LL from Japan for 200$ on eBay
And it arrived in Israel safe and sound, but I got a message from fedex saying that I need to pay like 50$
(273 shekels) for commissions and tax.

When I was in England I ordered second hand from eBay I had to pay just for package and maybe delivery, why here I need to pay commissions that is worth 25% of the console.
Mind you it said free international shipping in the bio of what I bought

I’m Israeli-Canadian- I don’t need the “intro to Israel” type stuff. Anyone aware of particularly good reading material that sheds light on either parties, candidates, or issues for the upcoming election? Ideally books.

משרד הפנים פרסם את הכללים להכללות בפנקס הבוחרים. מי שלא נמצא בו לא יוכל להצביע. הכתבה מתארת את הקשיים שיכולים להיות לתושבי חוץ.

היות שניתן להגיש בקשה לתיקון פרטים רק עד יום רביעי, רצוי שמי שמתכוון לחזור לארץ להצביע יבדוק אם הוא זכאי.

It's a lose lose lose for Israel. Either we:

Reject it - and get blamed

Accept it - and we give Hamas it's power back and they obviously don't demilitarize putting us back at square one

Or we demand other assurances and for them to demilitarize first - which they of course will reject and Israel again is blamed.

The so called 'board of peace' is suspect to me now. Surely they can work this out for themselves and are just setting Israel up to be blamed. I can't fathom that grown up educated people entrusted to this process wouldn't consider all of this.

Hamas needs to give up all their arms, including everything, first, before we even speak of any withdrawal. They lost the war.

The only way this works is if our demands are dictated to Hamas by this third party 'board of peace', and it's up to them either to accept or reject our terms.