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Students at Tel Aviv University. (Nir Kafri) Last update - 10:07 29/06/2007 45% of former USSR immigrant students do not see future in Israel By Or Kashti, Haaretz Correspondent Some 45 percent of high school students who immigrated from the former Soviet Union do not believe they have a future in Israel, according to the preliminary results of a new study due to be published in a few months. Only 65 percent would define themselves as Israeli, the study found. However, 88 percent would accept a hyphenated definition, such as Israeli-Russian. The survey, conducted over the past two months by the Forum for Immigrant Parents, covered some 300 students in ninth through 12th grades in communities with sizable Russian populations, such as Ashdod, Ramle and Petah Tikva. The preliminary results were presented to a subcommittee of the Knesset Immigration Committee Thurday. Advertisement Some 30 percent of the respondents said Israelis could teach them nothing, while 40 percent saw no need to study Jewish tradition or the Bible. Some 82 percent saw nothing worth learning from in Israeli culture, and 90 percent felt similarly about Israeli behavior. The study also found that the longer they were in Israel, the more likely the students were to define themselves as mehagrim (migrants) rather than olim (immigrants, but with the connotation of "to a better place"). Thus, after three years here, 68.6 percent defined themselves as olim, while after six years, only 23.6 percent did so. Some 28 percent did not define themselves as Jewish, and 76.1 percent said that Israel systematically violated the rights of non-Jewish immigrants on issues such as marriage and burial. Bookmark to del.icio.us   All in the family Tel Aviv municipality moves to retain contract with Gaza City as 'twin city.' Pining for a leader A documentary examines Ariel Sharon's motive for the Gaza disengagement.   1.   Compulsory Service 03:04  |  Slibovitz 29/06/07   2.   Wake-up Call 03:23  |  Robert 29/06/07   3.   NO surprise they are living in droves 03:44  |  Benny 29/06/07   4.   To Keep Quality People Israel Must Develop Some Class 04:23  |  nacl 29/06/07   5.   "28 percent did not define themselves as Jewish" 05:28  |  Jake 29/06/07   6.   Other surveys paint a completely different picture 05:32  |  Jake 29/06/07   7.   Not surprising 05:36  |  Moshe Benzaquen 29/06/07   8.   many of them are not even Jews... 06:04  |  Josh 29/06/07   9.   Emigration (and not back to Russia) is the only solution 06:09  |  Alex 29/06/07   10.   One thing: Many in the russian community in Israel arent jewish.. 06:11  |  Emilya 29/06/07   11.   about this 06:24  |  Claudio 29/06/07   12.   Worldwide Nation Center for Sacrifice 06:41  |  Stephen 29/06/07   13.   I agree with Claudio 06:50  |  Emilya 29/06/07   14.   Compulsory conversion to Judaism or expulsion. 06:53  |  keith 29/06/07   15.   Claudio (Post No. 11) 07:01  |  Johnny Weintraub 29/06/07   16.   No wonder 07:10  |  Gene 29/06/07   17.   Meaningless and Misleading Surveys 07:15  |  Double Click 29/06/07   18.   Ungrateful Russian Jews 07:37  |  Carlo 29/06/07   19.   Emilya Re: very strongly define myself as simply an Israeli 07:38  |  Alex 29/06/07   20.   back to russia? I 07:44  |  Shmulik 29/06/07   21.   israeli culture 07:59  |  Gerry 29/06/07   22.   Arabic and Hebrew are the Roots of Aramaic 08:18  |  Bernie 29/06/07   23.   To Claudio and Gene, and Johnny: 08:21  |  Emilya 29/06/07   24.   New migrants 08:40  |  sweis Melbourne 29/06/07   25.   Gene 08:45  |  sweis Melbourne 29/06/07   26.   to Alex, 09:30  |  Emilya 29/06/07   27.   Itzhak Rabin achoived his goal 09:34  |  the memory 29/06/07   28.   One last hting I wanted to add 09:37  |  Emilya 29/06/07   29.   Goyim will be Goyim 09:40  |  dave 29/06/07   30.   Great! Let them go.............. 09:42  |  Miriam 29/06/07   31.   IMMIGRATION MUST BE LIMITED:ONLY OF JEWISH MOTHERS & STRONG FAITH 09:46  |  VOICE of MOSHIACH))) 29/06/07   32.   Jewish rasists ,I am ashamed 10:04  |  Feliks Mazower 29/06/07   33.   not surprising 10:11  |  ravi 29/06/07   34.   Dasvidanya - let them go! 10:41  |  Alicia 29/06/07   35.   Yes Alicia`s right 10:54  |  Dana 29/06/07   36.   Not surprising, they are treated badly here 11:18  |  Yael 29/06/07   37.   #22 BERNIE: my red-pen is whizzing 11:18  |  Alicia 29/06/07   38.   The things have strongly changed since the 70s 11:40  |  Inyaki 29/06/07   39.   Robert 2 11:54  |  Steven 29/06/07   40.   This servey is not representative!!! Bad statisticians!!! 13:10  |  Yael G 29/06/07   41.   Alicia got it wrong - read your history 13:18  |  Yael G 29/06/07   42.   Why would they?!!! 13:29  |  Boozaglow 29/06/07   43.   Real Reasons 13:32  |  Stella 29/06/07   44.   Alicia, what you know is somehow true, but 13:44  |  Bandar Michaels 29/06/07   45.   Gene, you got it wrong 14:02  |  Boozaglow 29/06/07   46.   what about those who remained Jews under the pressure of KGB? 14:09  |  the memory 29/06/07   47.   Yael 14:59  |  dvora 29/06/07   48.   Memory give me a break & b less romantic about it! 15:09  |  Sally Forth 29/06/07   49.   ManyJews are Hebrew Wannabes 15:21  |  Double Click 29/06/07   50.   Responce 15:22  |  Gene 29/06/07   51.   ask yourself... 15:50  |  Joshua 29/06/07   52.   I`m ashamed of what I am seeing. 16:06  |  Nik Miller 29/06/07   53.   # 41 Yael 16:13  |  Alicia 29/06/07   54.   45% of former USSR etc etc 16:17  |  leon 29/06/07   55.   Responce 16:34  |  Gene 29/06/07   56.   Alicia - keep eing proud of being a zionist - BUT DON`Tgeneralize 16:36  |  Yael G 29/06/07   57.   Yael!!! 21:23  |  Dvora 29/06/07   58.   # 56 Yael, keep the Israeli flag high! 21:46  |  Alicia 29/06/07   59.   Ask a bunch of kids in any country and you will get similar resul 10:21  |  :-) 30/06/07   60.   #14.. conversion or expulsion 23:21  |  igco 10/02/08

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