Word: yordim
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Some of the yordim reply that they have left for one reason only: greater opportunity. They believe Israel cannot offer the scope, either financially or intellectually, that the émigrés are seeking. Says Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, a former Israeli who came to the U.S. in 1958: "In Israel, you deal with Israel. In the U.S., you deal with the U.S., the world-and Israel." Cardiologist Yzhar Charuzi says that his career would have been stunted if he had remained in Israel. "Here I have my opportunities," says Charuzi, now head of the coronary-care unit...
Those who stay call those who leave yordim (from the Hebrew verb meaning to descend) and look down on them as deserters. When Gary Bertini of the Israel Chamber Orchestra became the ninth Israeli conductor to leave the country in the past ten years, an angry music lover wrote to the Jerusalem Post...
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