Almost 26,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel in 2016, including 57% of the immigrants arriving from the Former Soviet Union, statistics released by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reveal. Jerusalem is the city which has attracted the most new immigrants is Jerusalem and the oldest new immigrants come from Morocco.
25,977 new immigrants arrived in 2016, representing a 7% decline from 2015. According to the CBS data released on Tuesday, 12 Sivan, since the establishment of the state, 3.2 million immigrants arrived in Israel with the largest immigration being from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, accounting for 43% of new immigration.
Today, this remains the source of most new immigration; with 27% coming from Russia and 22% the Ukraine, 17% from France and 11% the USA.
12.5% of immigrants settle in Yerushalayim, 11% Tel Aviv, 9% Netanya, 8% Haifa and 5% each in Ashdod and Bat Yam.
The average age of immigrants is 32.7 with the youngest being Ethiopia (20.8) and oldest Morocco (65.9).
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Not to be a curmudgeon, but given past statistics, since almost half of the immigrants are from the FSU, it may very well be that the sub-story is that another 4000 Gentiles have been given Israeli citizenship.