Nearly 270,000 Israelis have left the country over the past three years, citing political uncertainty and growing insecurity.
The trend is continuing this year ahead of the crucial October elections, reversing a decades-long pattern of migration to Israel.
A recent study by the Israeli Tax Authority, published earlier this month, adds to a series of reports suggesting that as the Israeli government moves further to the right, many highly educated, high-income Israelis are leaving a country they say they “no longer recognise.”
More than 86,500 Israelis left in 2023, followed by 91,500 in 2024 and roughly the same number in 2025.
The study found that emigration was higher in 2023 and 2024 than in previous years and that those leaving tended to be in higher income brackets.
Many Israelis who identify as “progressive” believe the Netanyahu government has made the country less secular and weakened the independence of its institutions, particularly the judiciary.
Although many Israelis may not oppose the genocide in Gaza or Israel’s involvement in several regional wars in principle, uncertainty over how long these conflicts will continue and the government’s failure to achieve the victories it promised have contributed to a growing sense of insecurity.
Israel is facing a “tsunami” of emigration, warns Gilad Kariv, chairman of the Israeli parliament’s Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee, who says the government is doing little to address the issue.
Source: Al Jazeera
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