A Fifth Considered Leaving: What the Public Thinks About Emigration from Israel?

A Kan News poll: 18% of Israelis considered leaving the country in the past two years, 82% did not. 12% said October election results could affect their decision to stay. 46% are not concerned about the number of emigrants, 41% are concerned. Gaps between coalition and opposition voters. Tel Aviv University study: 268,509 left between 2023 and 2025, a record.

A Kan News poll published this evening (Sunday) in the Kan News broadcast examined public attitudes on emigration from Israel. A third of participants said they know someone who left Israel in the past two years, while two-thirds answered negatively. When asked whether they had considered leaving Israel in the past two years, an overwhelming majority of 82% said no, but nearly a fifth (18%) said yes. Regarding the elections to be held in October, 12% said the election results could affect their decision to stay in Israel, two-thirds said they would not, and a fifth said they did not know. On the question of concern about the number of emigrants, there was near parity: 46% are not concerned, 41% are concerned. Differences were evident between coalition and opposition voters: among coalition voters, 70% are not concerned, while among opposition voters, nearly 60% are concerned. According to a Tel Aviv University study based on CBS data, between 2023 and 2025, 268,509 citizens left Israel for a period of at least three months—a record number. In the past year, about 90,000 Israelis left for a similar period, an exceptional figure and much higher than the average over the previous decade.