As the primary source is in hebrew, I can not check these questions easily my own: (1) Does it count only jewish immigrants? (2) How are immigrants here defined, by getting the Israeli citizenship granted? Or by settling in Israel's territory? If yes, does this also include Palestine's territory? (3) What does "immigrants since 1919" mean? There was no Israel prior to 1946, neither a state not a territory.
Both Israel and Palestine count the whole territory when discussing history at least , check some maps issued, there's often no border of 1948 division.
Why is Jordan and Syria not on here? There was as much or more Arab immigration in to Israel as Jewish immigration in the early 20th century. Does this only count Jewish immigration?
Jordan wasn't a nation. It became the nation of Transjordan at the same time Israel became a nation. Until then, it was a British colonial outpost post World War.
Yeah... this is from a page about "aliyah" which is when Jewish people "return" to Israel.... so.... it completely neglects the huge numbers of Arab Muslims and Christians that were flooding in from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt. These numbers are only for Jews. (though as you can see there were also large numbers of Jews coming from Iraq and Egypt... mostly because after the Arab League lost the war in '48 they started taking it out on their resident Jewish populations, forcing these people to flee, many times to Israel, ironically making their enemy stronger in the process)
Probably should have fixed the title before this hit the front page. Or at least added a caveat. This is *not* a list of all immigration to Israel. It only includes Jews making Aliyah. It doesn't count non-Jewish immigration at all (which from 1919 through at least 1948 was extremely substantial!! In many decades non-Jewish immigration exceeded Jewish immigration, especially during the British Mandate period when official policy was to stop Jewish immigration to Palestine)
According to one list of demographics I can find the Jewish population of Israel rose from 60,000 in 1918 to 540,000 in 1946. The non-Jewish population rose from 600,000 to 1.3 million during the same period. (though, of course, a lot of those non-Jews fled, were forced out, or ended up displaced and without a country after 1948) Most of those non-Jews were coming from the places that I mentioned. A better title would be something about Jewish immigration or From Whence Israelis Made Aliyah.
Not Quite, Ukrainian and Russian people mostly made "Aliyah" during to 90s and 00s, therefore, they don't have more than two generations in Israel so it can't be considered "roots". On the other hand, there are plenty of people with Moroccan roots and roots from other North American countries. During the 40s lots of African Jews came to Israel as there were pogroms and antisemitism there. They felt unsafe and as Jews wanted to live in Israel too. My Grandpa moved to Israel from Eritrea in the 40s. Although the quiz's data is quite mistaking, I really enjoyed it (and your other quizzes) and got a perfect score.
With respect, that's inaccurate. While it's true Russian immigration has increased, that doesn't mean no Jews came from the Russian Empire or Soviet Union earlier. Ben-Gurion, for one, was born in the Russian Empire. Pogrom is a Russian word.
Even if you want to say that nearly 90% of the 1.2 million + came after 1990, that still leaves 130,000+ that came earlier, which by themselves would be the 4th largest group of (Jewish) immigrants in the country. And if they came early on (as many did), then their families would have had time to grow and multiply.
I was having this conversation with a friend just a couple days ago about countries from whence the most pulchritudnous womenfolk hail, and Israel came up. I remarked that it's similar to the USA, both a hodgepodge of immigrants, but Israel definitely has an advantage. Drawing so heavily upon Russia, Eastern Europe, North Africa, Iran and Iraq and with a dash from East Africa... all places at or near the top of the list of most good-looking people... what an amazing combination of genetic material Israel has to work with. The US of course has people from all over too, but the large percentage of our ancestors from England and West Africa are generally less attractive than people from all of those other places at the top of the list for Israeli immigration.
Real talk— and I know I'm beating a dead horse here— but it's very uncomfortable how you always talk about women like this (or hopefully used to talk, given this is 5 years old; if you've stopped doing this don't bother reading anything else I wrote here). I've certainly disagreed with you on things before, but you generally seem like a pretty good man. Maybe a bit of an ego (though I can hardly be one to judge that lol), but you have a lot of wisdom. You seem really open to other people's experiences and wisdom. You seem to have a lot of good values, and a great work ethic.
But this here? This reads like you're talking about dog breeds. Just straight up. All this talk on "genetic material". And evaluating those genetics solely on how much eye candy you get out of it. It's like you're a dog breeder and the 4 billion women in the world are your dog show. It's really weird. It's really creepy.
Look, I get it man. We all have our types. I'd be lying to your face if I said I wasn't into women with curly hair and freckles. If you're smitten by women's features which tend to cluster around Eastern Europe or North Africa or Iran, I don't think anyone would care. (Well, nobody with a realistic outlook on sexuality would care.)
But talking about your preferences as if they're objective*, plastering those preferences all over the internet for the whole world to see, comparing not just women individually but groups of women too like they're steaks at a diner... it's just really creepy, man.
(*I know your quiz says they're subjective, but from my point of view you still talk about them like they're objective.)
Would you make a tierlist of world cultures? A hierarchy of ethnic superiority? If your answer is yes then my bad and I guess I was wrong about you. But if your answer is no, why do you do so for the world's women?
The last thing I want to say is a bit off-topic, but if all else fails hopefully it can convince you to think through some things:
For someone who so often brings up anti-American bigotry, you are I think the only user on the website who I have consistently seen argue that Americans are (relatively) inferior on a genetic level. When you do that, it is always in this context.
Although the Former Soviet Union is First on the List, Most of the Israelis Roots come from Yemen, Iraq, Poland, Austro-Hungary, Germany, and Morocco. The Russians we have in Israel are mostly ones who immigrated to Israel after the 90s.
Also, Countries such as France, Bulgaria and Romania are countries which only the Jews from there immigrate to Israel, not non-jews. Ethiopia, Sudan and Tunisia are mostly refugees and not immigrants. The Country Sends most of the Sudanese people to refugee camps in the desert but the Ethiopians have a pretty big community in central Israel. Argentina is there because during WW2, lots of Jews escaped to America, in South America mostly Argentina and Brazil, so after the war I guess most of them decided to immigrate to Israel, the Jews homeland. Thx for Listening to My TedTalk about Israel's immigrants :)
I've said this twice already but these numbers are ONLY Jews making Aliyah. That includes the numbers from Ethiopia and Sudan. Though many Jews making Aliyah to Israel were coming from places where they were being heavily persecuted, Ethiopia very much included, but that doesn't make them any different from the Jews coming out of Russia, Poland, Germany, Iraq, or Egypt.
The quiz is about people immigrating TO Israel. We're guessing which countries they emigrated from. Instead of "why would Jews want to move there?", it's "why would they want to stay?".
(3) check out Balfour declaration
Real talk— and I know I'm beating a dead horse here— but it's very uncomfortable how you always talk about women like this (or hopefully used to talk, given this is 5 years old; if you've stopped doing this don't bother reading anything else I wrote here). I've certainly disagreed with you on things before, but you generally seem like a pretty good man. Maybe a bit of an ego (though I can hardly be one to judge that lol), but you have a lot of wisdom. You seem really open to other people's experiences and wisdom. You seem to have a lot of good values, and a great work ethic.
But this here? This reads like you're talking about dog breeds. Just straight up. All this talk on "genetic material". And evaluating those genetics solely on how much eye candy you get out of it. It's like you're a dog breeder and the 4 billion women in the world are your dog show. It's really weird. It's really creepy.
But talking about your preferences as if they're objective*, plastering those preferences all over the internet for the whole world to see, comparing not just women individually but groups of women too like they're steaks at a diner... it's just really creepy, man.
(*I know your quiz says they're subjective, but from my point of view you still talk about them like they're objective.)
Would you make a tierlist of world cultures? A hierarchy of ethnic superiority? If your answer is yes then my bad and I guess I was wrong about you. But if your answer is no, why do you do so for the world's women?
For someone who so often brings up anti-American bigotry, you are I think the only user on the website who I have consistently seen argue that Americans are (relatively) inferior on a genetic level. When you do that, it is always in this context.
Take care. o/
Also, Countries such as France, Bulgaria and Romania are countries which only the Jews from there immigrate to Israel, not non-jews. Ethiopia, Sudan and Tunisia are mostly refugees and not immigrants. The Country Sends most of the Sudanese people to refugee camps in the desert but the Ethiopians have a pretty big community in central Israel. Argentina is there because during WW2, lots of Jews escaped to America, in South America mostly Argentina and Brazil, so after the war I guess most of them decided to immigrate to Israel, the Jews homeland. Thx for Listening to My TedTalk about Israel's immigrants :)
I've said this twice already but these numbers are ONLY Jews making Aliyah. That includes the numbers from Ethiopia and Sudan. Though many Jews making Aliyah to Israel were coming from places where they were being heavily persecuted, Ethiopia very much included, but that doesn't make them any different from the Jews coming out of Russia, Poland, Germany, Iraq, or Egypt.