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But what many cannot ac-
cept — because it negates the
very essence of their ideology
and their sacrifice — is that
thousands of their country-
men are choosing to opt out
of the dream.
This disappointment has
expressec• itself in anger and
s' or" at the emigrants, who
have been characterized as
weak, materialistic deserters.
In recent years, however,
there have been attempts to
come to grips with the reality
of emigration in the hopes of
halting the exodus and entic-
ing back those who have
already left.
To the dismay of those
Israelis who would prefer to
regard the emigrants as
cowardly riff-raff, the fact is
that 90 percent are young
men who have completed
three years of punishing
military service and find
themselves back in civilian
life without skills, jobs,
homes or money. Others are
highly educated academics
frustrated by the drying up
of university research funds
and young, middle-class
Israelis who, for one reason
or another, see no prospects
for themselves in the Prom-
ised Land.
"We are losing some of our
finest Israelis, our greatest
national resource," says
Shmuel Lahis, a Jerusalem
lawyer who resigned as
director-general of the World
Zionist Organization four
years ago to launch a cam-
paign against emigration.
"We are suffering a terrible
brain drain, something that
the country cannot afford."
the stigma of emigration,
he says, leads many to dis-
guise their intentions, even to
themselves. "Hardly anyone
says, 'I'm going for good.'
They tend to say they're
going abroad for a while to
study, to see the world, to
make some money.
"Most of them really
believe they will return one
day. I have met many Israelis
who have lived in the United
States for years and years,
and not once did I find
anyone who did not plan,
someday, to come home."
Lahis, whose organization
combats emigration and en-
courages Israelis , living
abroad to return, actively lob-
bies politicians for measures
that will help young soldiers
integrate into civilian life. He
wants them to be given edu-
cation grants, favorable
mortgages, business loans
and preferential treatment
when they apply for jobs.
Such measures, he believes,
will help young Israelis to
decide to stay.
"Unfortunately," he says,
"the government's policy is
simply not to have a policy,
but to try to escape from the
issue. We should be raising
hell to keep our kids here in

this country. Instead, no-
thing is being done."
In fact, however, this past
August Israel's Ministry
of Immigrant Absorption
launched a campaign which is
designed to bring home
dozens of emigrants with
high technology skills.
Later this year, the min-
istry will hold "job fairs" in
the U.S. and Canada, where
Israeli firms will canvass for
Israeli engineers and other
skilled workers. In addition,
emigrants living in the U.S.
will have the chance to dis-
cuss job prospects with
potential employers in Israel
via a satellite-television link
arranged by the ministry.
In all events, says the
Minister of Immigrant Ab-
sorption, Ya'acov Tsur, it is
important to maintain con-
tact with emigrants and not
treat them as traitors. "I
can'tjustify what they've
done, but at the same time
they are the children of this
country. I want to maintain
a dialogue with them and
encourage them • to come
home," Tsur says.
Says Shmuel Lahis, "I
have met so many young men
who have gone abroad, found
work, bought a car, but who
still long to return. The
trouble is that they feel it is
a terrible shame to come back
without being a millionaire."
The trouble, too, is that the
very factors that are at the
heart of the latest wave of
emigration — the economy
and unemployment, disillu-
sionment over the war in
Lebanon, a lack of confidence
in Israel's political leader-
ship, a waning of ideological
commitment and a general
sense of malaise about the
'«dream" — are unlikely to in-
spire emigre Israelis to re-
turn home.
Nor are these factors likely
to persaude Western immi-
grants to stay in Israel. Of
the Americans who do actual-
ly decide to move to the
Jewish state, fully 50 percent
return to the United States
within four years.

Helen Davis is a writer
living in ilsrael.

Tour Follows
Herzl Path

New York — The American
Jewish Congress has announced
a tour, In the Footsteps of
Herzl," that will retrace the
travels of Zionism's founder,
Theodor Herzl. The tour will
start in England, continue into
France, Germany, Switzerland,
Hungary, and end in Austria.
There will be an optional exten-
sion to Istanbul or Israel.
The tour will feature stops in
the cities and lands that played
important roles in the life of
Herzl.

