Some REAL Statistics on Yerida

40,000 Non-Jews from CIS Leave Israel

(IsraelNN.com) According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, at least 40,000 of the roughly 229,000 Israelis who moved abroad between 1990 and 2005 were non-Jews who had come to the country from eastern Europe. Immigrants from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), both Jewish and non-Jewish, made up almost 50% of Israeli emigrants (yordim).

10,500 Israeli citizens returned to Israel in 2005 after living abroad for over one year. 55% of those returning were born in Israel, while 45% were born abroad.