Liberman: "If this coalition wins the elections, half a million people will leave Israel"

Avigdor Liberman, at a meeting with Russian-speaking bloggers and journalists on September 15, stated that 270,000 people have left Israel in recent years, citing data from the Tax Authority. According to him, the authors of the report warned that if the current coalition wins the elections, half a million people will leave the country.

Avigdor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, met with Russian-speaking bloggers and journalists on September 15. At the meeting, he made a statement about emigration from Israel. Liberman reported that, according to the Tax Authority, 270,000 people have left the country in recent years. He emphasized that he personally spoke with the compilers of this report, and they directly told him: if the current coalition wins the upcoming elections, half a million people will leave Israel. The statement was made in the context of an election campaign where Liberman is opposing the current coalition. The article is a direct transmission of his words without additional analysis or context from the publication.