Russians in Israel
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Russians in Israel or Russian Israelis are post-Soviet Russian citizens who immigrated to Israel and their descendants. As of 2022, Russian-speakers number around 1,300,000 people, or 15% of the Israe
General Joseph F. Dunford and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with Israeli-Russian Red Army veterans in Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with new Russian immigrants on their flight from Russia to Israel. 27 April 1994.
1990s post-Soviet aliyah
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In the years leading up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and for just over a decade thereafter, a particularly large number of Jews emigrated from the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet co
Russians in Israel
…their descendants. As of 2022, Russian-speakers number around 1,300,000 people, or 15% of the Israeli population. This number, however, also includes immigrants from the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states other than Russia proper. Some of the immigrants are not considered Jewish according to the Halacha, which defines a Jew if their mother is Jewish or…
Jewish Agency Chairman Avraham Burg welcomes new Russian immigrants upon their arrival at Ben Gurion Airport. 10 May 1995.
Soviet immigrant children in the caravan neighborhood of Bat Yam, July 1991.
Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib described the Russian immigrants as having "helped shift Israel to the right – to the disadvantage of peace possibilities".