Israel’s net settler migration stock (the number of settlers who left the country without intending to return minus the number of long-term returnees) decreased by 125,200 people from the beginning of 2022 to August 2024, according to a report submitted to the Immigration Absorption Committee of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) on Monday.
The report noted that the increase in the number of permanent residents in recent years may have been influenced by Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.
This trend is thought to continue until 2025 as the war in Gaza continues.
“This is not a wave of migrants, but a tsunami of Israelis choosing to leave the country,” said committee chairman MK Gilad Khalif.
According to a report compiled by the Parliamentary Research and Information Center, approximately 59,400 Israelis left the country in 2022, and a record 82,800 left in 2023. Around 50,000 people left the country in the first eight months of 2024, the report said.
Meanwhile, the average number of long-term immigrants from 2009 to 2021 was nearly 40,500 per year.
Israel launched a genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023, killing nearly 70,000 Palestinians before the war ended with a fragile ceasefire earlier this month.
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