emigration

Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 23, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers
Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.
By Hila Amit January 7, 2026
People walk through Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market, partially closed following ongoing missile attacks from Iran, June 23, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Is Israel’s genocide economy on the brink?
Economist Shir Hever explains how the Gaza war mobilization propped up a ‘zombie economy’ that appears to function but lacks any future horizon.
By Amos Brison December 16, 2025
Israeli security forces at the scene of an explosion in Ramle, Sept. 12, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Why Palestinians in Israel believe crime is a ‘strategic project of the state’
Amid an epidemic of gang violence, activists and experts see Israel's deliberate inaction as part of a campaign to dismantle Palestinian society from within.
By Baker Zoubi May 27, 2025
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File photo of Israeli anti-occupation activists protesting in front of the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem. (Maya Levin/Flash90)
The crisis of Israel’s anti-occupation Left
Israelis emigrating — or considering emigration — for political reasons are inadvertently adopting the spirit of the boycott movement in the sense that they, too, have given up on the idea of change coming from within. Everywhere I turn these days, many of my peers have left Israel, are leaving Israel, are planning to leave, or are…
By Mairav Zonszein October 8, 2016
Israelis board at plane departing Ben-Gurion Airport. (Illustrative photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90)
Emigration as a political act
The Israeli government has guaranteed the non-viability of a two-state solution and apartheid has already arrived. I will not sacrifice my children’s future for a hopeless struggle. By Na’aman Hirschfeld The immigration of young Israelis to Berlin is troubling “because it is precisely these young women and men who are needed in Israel,” explains veteran…
By +972 Magazine August 5, 2016
Seven Nights 3: Sidewalks and playgrounds
Part three. In which old friends reunite and talk about leaving. For other nights click here. Some time after sunset, the muezzin at Jaffa’s Abu Nabout mosque called for prayer one last time. Meanwhile, protesters at the nearby Clock Square stretched a clothing line across the street. On the line hung baby clothes, reminders of…
By Yuval Ben-Ami August 8, 2015
A man faces the wind on a stormy day on the Gaza coast. (Photo by Basel Yazouri/Activestills.org)
Why I’m thinking of leaving Israel
I don’t feel a sense of belonging in the place where I was born. I want to live in a place where my right to vote is not seen as a threat to the regime, where my ethnicity doesn’t hold me back and where my language is not a barrier. One day I will leave,…
By +972 Magazine April 22, 2015
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