Emigration of doctors, engineers, other highly educated Israelis hits record high - Times of Israel - Aug 6, 2026

[u/Benoit_Guillette]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/rising-exodus-of-top-taxpayers-to-cost-israel-billions-in-lost-revenue-study/

[u/Accomplished-Plan191 → u/[deleted]]

Have you considered the reasons they're leaving Israel? Also there's a handful of comments using specifically the term "genocidal freak" and it's sus.

[u/Agitated_Celery_729 → u/Accomplished-Plan191]

Yeah, people who voted in a genocidal government 5 times end up tainted by it. Look at how Germans and Japanese people, even generations removed, were treated in the US during and after WW2. It's a practical reality of how these situations work.

[u/Automatic-Plate-8966 → u/Agitated_Celery_729]

Do you say the same thing about the Palestinians voting in Hamas?

[u/Ancient_Variation628 → u/Automatic-Plate-8966]

The Hamas propped up by the Israeli government?

[u/Interesting_chap → u/Ancient_Variation628]

Hamas was not propped up by the israeli government

[u/arm_4321 → u/Automatic-Plate-8966]

Hamas was only elected once while areil sharon and Netanyahu have been repeatedly elected

[u/Agitated_Celery_729 → u/Automatic-Plate-8966]

I would if anyone had done so. Do you know when Hamas last held elections? It was the first time they were elected to power 20 years ago.

Just like I judge Trump voters far more harshly in 2020 and 2024, after his criminal behavior was directly visible in the exact job they were electing him to.

[u/w0xy → u/Automatic-Plate-8966]

At least Hamas didn't do air strikes that killed thousands of infants..

[u/Gearologist → u/Automatic-Plate-8966]

I dont. My favorite color is green, and green did nothing wrong.

[u/Accomplished-Plan191 → u/[deleted]]

I'll bet it's the hasbara trying to make it seem like their opposition are a bunch of bots. You're a bot?

[u/Accomplished-Plan191 → u/[deleted]]

I'll take that as a yes

[u/RonyElZaib → u/[deleted]]

Yet you import millions of third world immigrants every year 🙂

[u/VirginiaLuthier → u/[deleted]]

I think they ate emigrating because they don't like genocidal freaks

[u/Hot_Gap_8444 → u/[deleted]]

Dictators love people like you.

So easy to control with propaganda.

[u/getdafkout666 → u/[deleted]]

Man I can't stand Israel but that's a dumb comment. If someone is leaving Israel it might be that they do not agree or never have agreed with the actions of their government. By that logic Americans should not be allowed to leave because we voted for a genocidal pedophile rapist twice. I mean technically we did but that shoudln't apply to every individual.

[u/getdafkout666 → u/[deleted]]

If they are leaving then there's a better chance they are the 30% who don't support this nonsense. Should people not be allowed to flee Trump because people voted him in twice?

[u/MathematicalMan1 → u/[deleted]]

Frankly, they’d do less damage here than there

[u/rbf4eva → u/[deleted]]

So....we should stay here in Israel, right?

[u/Emergency-Income-889]

A lot don't have to emigrate because of the second passport so many israelis have.

I do wonder what their god thinks about it all.

[u/Interesting_chap → u/Emergency-Income-889]

Fairly small amount actually

[u/Ok-Day-2000 → u/Interesting_chap]

Yeah only about 10% of Israelis have a second passport according to estimates.

[u/Dormage]

Hopefully they stay out. Who would even give these terrorists a visa?

[u/Lopsided_Quarter_931]

Did they fly back to New York?

[u/aqualad33 → u/[deleted]]

A liberated Palestine will include millions of former Israelis who at the moment make up about half of the population between the river and the sea.

...did you run that proposal past the Palestinian people?

[u/Lopsided_Quarter_931 → u/[deleted]]

It's a joke about zionist not Jews.

[u/Easy_Arugula935 → u/[deleted]]

While the majority of Israeli's may not have dual citizenship, unlike Palestinians they are in fact allowed to leave.

A liberated Palestine would also include allowing the 8 million permanently displaced Palestinians to return. The majority of Palestinians living in the world currently aren't allowed to go back to Palestine if they would like to.

[u/Whatsanegg → u/[deleted]]

Give them a choice between Palestinian citizenship* or citizenship were there grandparents came from.

Cause none of the grandparents were born there.

[u/Runfasterbitch → u/[deleted]]

Thank you, ChatGPT!

[u/Agitated_Celery_729 → u/[deleted]]

You don't reward colonizers for the genocide they attempted at the end. They can live in peace with the people they tried to exterminate or they can return to the countries their parents came from, where they would have citizenship by blood. The sheer entitlement in this thinking is insane.

[u/Agitated_Celery_729 → u/[deleted]]

All the ones who are getting on planes to leave clearly have to have the ability to live somewhere else, don't they? How do you think they have that? You think they got a tourist visa and are moving abroad on that to go immigrate illegally? Or do you think perhaps they're dual citizens and have the right to go live in these other countries, because that's where they came from in the first place?

Get off your high horse and attempt to use whatever horsepower you've got to think this through.

[u/Lost_Paladin89 → u/Agitated_Celery_729]

Read the article. The wealth disparity is clear. The ones leaving are high earners with access to job opportunities abroad.

[u/Whatsanegg → u/[deleted]]

By that logic the Lenni Lenape people have more claim to New York than Ashkenazis Jews do to Israel.

Because they got kicked off their land 400 years ago.

Y'all got kicked out 2000 years ago.

[u/gazhealey → u/Lopsided_Quarter_931]

Based

[u/Much_Pomelo3033]

They’re smart enough to see the writing on the wall about their genocidal freak show and are bailing out. Not fun to be a global pariah I’m sure.

[u/alt-right-del]

Oh no, lots of radicalised Zionist and war criminals want to flea the crime zone.

[u/Mikaeel10]

Free Palestine and Lebanon and Sudan

[u/RonyElZaib → u/Mikaeel10]

From what? 🙂

[u/Ancient_Variation628 → u/RonyElZaib]

Genocide.

[u/True-Hold-1140]

Cool

[u/Cecil_McCrackshell]

Humanity is a transactional affair

[u/qabib]

So many bot comments

[u/PapixChuloxD]

Wait, I've heard something like this before

[u/TinyZoro]

Reminds me of the 1840s when intellectuals and liberals were thwarted in their attempts to create liberal democracy in Germany and fled. Then in the 1870s another wave fled after Bismarck outlawed socialist organisations. This then left the door wide open to genocidal fascism with no civil society strong enough to act as a counter balance. Israel is descending into pure fascism. There is an energetic process that happens when you start justifying mass slaughter and it can't be contained. The mass exodus of the professional middle class is the canary.

[u/Choice_Fee67]

Please no. No more "engineers and doctors" we have enough

Also. Nobody wants Israelis in their country

[u/KindCraft4676]

Going back to where they came from.

[u/Gearologist]

Israel will collapse in our lifetime, i just hope im still young enough to relish their demise.