Why would no more Jewish engineers want to mve to Israel? There are more being born and growing up every year -- Jewish engineers are a renewable resource.
hm. My understanding is that it's just really easy for a Jewish person to immigrate to Israel - my understanding is that for the rest of us, it's still easier, say, than getting into America.
Also work visas are very sparse and are dominated by several human resource companies.
For a skilled worker, I'd say it's much easier to immigrate to America then it is to Israel.
People who live in a country usually know it better than foreigners, so if almost 40% of them are contemplating emigration, there are some deep economic and social problems within that society.
The last major immigration to Israel were eastern european jews leaving the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and that was only because Israel put enormous political pressure on the US to not allow them to come to the states instead.
I can't find a source for your claim the Israel put political pressure on the US to not allow Soviet Jews to immigrate. Your dates are also off by 1-2 decades, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_Post-Soviet_aliyah
Do you have a source for your claim?
Yes, the one you just linked and didn't read, at all. Literally the first sentence of the wikipedia article. The first sentence. From Wikipedia, the highest number of Jewish immigrants from The Soviet Union was in 1990. The first chart!
Further discussion of the reason for Jewish organizations in America and Israel supporting limiting the amount of Soviet Jewish immigration to the US can be found here:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/belin/13469761.0016.001/--we-are...
I can't imagine you're a good developer or a good project contributor, since not only are you not capable of reading the documentation or doing a google search, you correct people who are right by using sources that say that you're wrong.
Your other ad hominem comments seem pretty absurd.
Ie, most of the people who left in 1990 had already begun their applications and prepared to emigrate in 1989 or even earlier, unless you believe that the crumbling soviet bureaucracy moved at lighting speed and that it was easy for jews in central Asia to travel thousands of miles and spend potentially weeks applying for an exit visa in Moscow.
Citing wikipedia as a primary source is something that wikipedia explicitly discourages, in part because so many articles are constantly being degraded in quality by extremist political partisans: scientologists, objectivists, zionists, stalinists, neo-nazis, etc. Clearly I have a grasp of the facts of the matter, so why are you splitting hairs if not to distract from the other things I said that you have no response to.
The link I posted (of which you have said nothing, nor have you attempted a defense of why the Israeli government shut down a Finnish transit point that allowed soviet Jews to choose between the US and Israel) puts the period between 1989 and 1993. Furthermore, it provides exhaustive and nuanced evidence that the Israeli state was strongly opposed to allowing soviet jews freedom of choice. Ironically, the Israeli political mainstream is quite similar to the Soviet Union itself, in both its curtailing of human freedom, crude propaganda lies, and ugly ethno-nationalism.
It is pretty absurd that you would have this evidence but be in such a strong state of dissonance that you're not willing to contest or process them, you're only trying to block them out.
That sounds to me like a developer who ignores technical debt, isn't capable of learning new ways of thinking or disagreeing rationally, and insists on endless bikeshedding of irrelevant minutia instead of dealing with actual facts. I've known several great expat Israeli developers, and more than one of them left Israel precisely because they found that engineers and politicians with attitudes like the one I've described are destroying Israeli economic and social life.
(source: have been living in Israel my whole life, have friends who emigrated)
For people of non-jewish descent it is very hard to obtain citizenship, work visas are usually given for up to 5 years, after which you need to leave. In my opinion, this is a major weakness of the local startup ecosystem.
Because of their shitty treatment of Palestinians perhaps. :/
For me, something about being around heavily armed guards at every train stop and major road intersection all the time.