This is completely out of the blue, but there’s a restaurant near me that I was told was owned by an older Israeli couple and they apparently make really good food. It led me to wonder what the Israeli diaspora generally thought about Israel.

Israel is a special case for a diaspora because it’s a relatively new country and so it was needed to create Israeli citizens (in the legal sense) from nothing – since Palestinians are not allowed to become Israeli citizens.

I know Israel used to offer citizenship to any Jewish person willing to move there, but I don’t know if this is still in effect. If this older couple in my story is Israeli, it means that probably their parents got the citizenship and later the two of them left, probably after living in Israel.

But more than their individual stories, I’m more interested in knowing if there’s a general trend we can observe specifically in Israeli emigrants. I’m not gonna lie, this would also help me know if I would give a shot eating there or not.

People emigrate for a variety of reasons, but one thing I’ve noticed is that people who left socialist countries are generally very adamant against them, and this in turns bleeds into their children. People who leave one capitalist country for another are usually doing so out of job opportunities or to improve their quality of life. In Europe it’s possible to trace many families emigrating in the 40s to escape Nazi occupation. At least that’s my experience. Is there the same trend there?