Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 60 thousand Jews have decided to leave Russia
In 2022, more than 26,000 Jews repatriated to Israel from Russia, and another 35,000 are awaiting paperwork. The Guardian writes about this, referring to data from the Israeli authorities. As the newspaper notes, they were stunned by the scale of the new wave of repatriation from Russia. Over the entire previous year, only 21,000 Russian Jews moved to Israel.