The drinking of earlier and more recent Russian immigrants to Israel: comparison to other Israelis.

Drinking patterns of recent Russian immigrants and other Israelis: 1995 national survey results.

OBJECTIVES A large group of Russian Jews has immigrated to Israel since 1989. Russia has one of the highest alcohol consumption levels in the world, while the level in Israel is among the lowest. This study was designed to provide empirical information on the drinking of these Russian immigrants compared with the drinking of other Jewish Israeli residents. METHODS The data came from a 1995 na...

Xenophobia towards Palestinian Citizens of Israel among Russian Immigrants in Israel: Heightened by Failure to Make Gains in a New Democratic Society*

This study advances a comprehensive analysis of the antecedents of xenophobia towards Palestinian citizens of Israel among Israeli immigrants from the former Soviet Union in comparison to nonimmigrant Jewish Israelis. We conducted a large-scale study of xenophobia in the face of terrorism in Israel by means of telephone surveys in September 2003 and analyzed a sample of 641 nonimmigrant Jewish ...

Alcohol and ADH2 in Israel: Ashkenazis, Sephardics, and recent Russian immigrants.

OBJECTIVE Jews drink less than other Caucasians and have a higher prevalence of ADH2*2, an allele of an alcohol dehydrogenase gene that protects against heavy drinking. The relationship of ADH2 polymorphisms to lifetime maximum number of drinks per occasion was investigated in recent Russian immigrants to Israel (exposed to heavier drinking in their country of origin), other Israeli Ashkenazis,...

The Return to English in a Non-english Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

Macroeconomic and Labor Market Impact of Russian Immigration in Israel

From 1990 to 1997, over 710 thousand Russian Jews emigrated to Israel, increasing Israel’s working-age population by 15 percent. This paper argues that a canonical onesector neoclassical growth model explains both the short run and the medium run response of Israel’s economy to this shock. Specifically, we show that average effective wages of native Israelis fell and the return to capital incre...