40 Friday, January 14, 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Tries to Satisfy Academic Russian Olim,
Jewish Agency's immig- Jews leaving the USSR is
ration and absorption de- because the authorities
1.
JERUSALEM — Jews partment.
there no longer let them
comprise one percent of
"With some 500,000 concentrate on education
the total population of the university-trained Jews as much as they used to,"
Soviet Union and fives. in the USSR, it is obvious Dominitz said.
percent of the that one should plan the
But conditions in Israel
university-trained popu- absorption of Soviet im- are difficult for these
lation. They hold 10 per- migrants with special at- people simply because
cent of the PhD degrees tention to the university their training is in fields
and 30 percent of the doc- graduates because it is in which Israel's economy
torates in the hard sci- the university-trained presently does not have
Jews who have the many openings.
ences.
"Of course, you can re-
These statistics are of strongest motivation for
vital importance to the emigraticrn," Dominitz train them," Dominitz
said, "but how many will
absorption of Jewish im- said.
migrants from the Soviet _ He added that when agree. to re-training? The
Union, according to these immigrants of high higher their skills, the
Yehuda Dominitz, deputy academic background ar- less motivation immig-
director • eneral of the rive in Israel, the question rants have for re-
of providing them with ap- training," he noted.
And there are other fac-
propriate jobs arises not
only because it is essential tors that make the absorp-
tion of university-trained
to absorbing them but be
cause the inability to find Soviet immigrants more
employment in their fields difficult than other immig-
was one of the chief rants, Dominitz said.
He pointed out that
reasons they left Russia.
"There is reason to be- university training-in the
lieve that one of the USSR is much more
primary motivations of specialized than in the
West and therefore it is
almost impossible to finci,
a newcomer exactly the
same job. he had in the
Soviet Union.
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"We compromise bet-
ween the needs and the
possibilities," Dominitz
said. The main problem
with emigre physicians is
to find a job that carries
status.
"A person who was con-
sidered a specialist in
Moscow in a specific field
is-of little value here if he
is not well trained in addi-
tional fields," he said. He
noted, however, that
there are severalsolu-
tions to the problem or at
least attempts to solve it,
some of which are already
in practice.
For example, the state
subsidizes the first year
and sometimes the sec-
ond year of work in Israel
in V cases where the
employer has a job to
offer but cannot afford to
pay a full time salary
under existing condi-
tions.
The employer commits
himself to employ the im-
migrant after a trial
period provided that the
employe meets profes-
sional standards. Until the
trial period ends, the im-
migrant's salary is paid by
the Absorption Ministry,
Dominitz said.
This practice has been
relatively successful. Up
to now, 85 percent of the
immigrant workers re-
ceiving subsidies have
been absorbed.
However, at the mo-
ment, many employers
hesitate to commit •em-
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cause • of uncertain
economic prospects,
Dominitz said.
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sionals for whom re-
science-based industry. -
In general, Dominitz training is not possible
'said, the entire economy of and for whom it would be
the nation is becoming a waste of their skills.
In the case of these
more science-oriented in
order, among other things, people, •the science ab-
to provide jobs for scienti- sorption center of the Ab-
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"If the state is not pre-
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at all levels there will be
no immigration. Doctors
will not become farmers,"
Dominitz said. But gen-
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the standard of absorp-
tion here.
Israel, believe it or not,
is competitive with the
United States as far as its
ability to absorb Russian
Jews is concerned, he
said.
He observed that in the
U.S. nobody helps a Rus-
sian physician establish a
practice but in Israel
every attempt is made to
find work for doctors de-
spite the difficulty of find-
ing positions for 2,000
physicians who arrived in
less than five years.
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Almost 10,000 university
. degrees were awarded in
Israel during the 1975-76
academic year, according
to official statistics just
published.
Some 7,000 of them
were first degrees
(bachelor and parallel de-
grees), 1,350 masters, 270
medical doctor, about 300
doctors of philosophy in
various fields. -
_Some 1,000 teaching
diplomas of academic
rank were awarded:
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