Some Israelis yearn for new lives in Germany
Oct 11th 2014 | JERUSALEM
IS BERLIN the new Jerusalem? A Facebook page launched in Hebrew this month on how to move to a city far from rockets and rocketing prices in Israel has gone viral, reaching 600,000 people in a week.
It is called Olim Le-Berlin, “Let’s ascend to Berlin”, using the same rousing verb Jews reserve for emigrating, or “ascending”, to Israel.
Even Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, a leading economist commissioned by the government to look at the high cost of living, which sparked mass protests in 2011, has piped in. “Berlin is more attractive than Tel Aviv,” he says.
The German Federal Statistics Office records an increase of just 400 Israeli immigrants per year.
Some 700,000 Israelis have abandoned the Promised Land since its creation, says Sergio DellaPergola, a demographer.
Jewish migration Next year in Berlin The Economist
I wonder how the Germans feel about this.
Actually no, that emoticon is too nice.
Penelope I have often wondered about your choice of avatar; the 'peace' sign of the 60's. Ahh, the 60's, where so many 'found' themselves by using mind altering drugs of varying strengths. This thread, every other post of yours, and your reading and comprehension skills revealed by said posts; tells me that you used those of the strongest strength.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I do not drink nor do any drugs. My peace sign is what I what to see everywhere, esp. in Israel as I think it might help with the rest of the ME. Your insults will not stop me from posting about the Zionist problem in the world, the US and the ME and esp. in Israel. So go right ahead.
I get sick when I see commercials about Wounded Warriors now, lets face it , they are disabled veterans, not wounded Warriors, the one with the little daughter, I wonder how she'll feel about the gov. when she sees what a waste the Iraq war was and what happened to her Dad. I cringe when I see young men coming home with arms, and legs missing, or PTSD they commit suicide , get divorced and end up on those hard drugs your talking about.
Hows that for explaining my avatar? Hope its up to your satisfaction. I also hope you can comprehend my post.
The only people who see a Zionist problem are the neo Marxists, the ISLAMONAZIS and the neo Nazis. Which group do you fall into out of these three, or are you in all three. I wonder if you cringe when you see the tunnels dug under Israeli schools and kindergarten's packed with high explosives ready to blow thousand of innocent children to tiny pieces, or do you swell with pride at the thought of your hero's ridding the world of 10,000 Zionists ?