Israel is a country of immigrants: Israel's Jewish population grew “from 649,000 in May 1948 to 2,752,700 at the end of 1972, and 3,373,200 in 1982…. Immigration accounted for more than 1,721,426 persons or approximately 60 percent of this increase” (Damian, 1974:33). But, from the outset, Israel has also been a country of emigration, with some 305,000 leaving between 1948 and 1984 (Sabbatello, n.d.). In Hebrew, emigration from Israel is yerida, literally “going down,” fading or failing, and in recent years this emigration has been widely viewed by Israelis as an index of decline.
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